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Brainstorming is an interesting operation. One of the key ideas of brainstorming is to suspend the critical faculty. Never reject an idea. Accept them all, until you understand their virtues, and bounce them around a while. Then, do not reject bad ideas, select good ideas. A mind that is prepared to reject ideas, is to some degree a closed mind. A closed mind is liable to miss something that will help him or save him money.

So you start out by listening attentively and with honest interest to every idea, and then, you do not ridicule or reject ideas, you choose the best idea for what you are trying to do at the time, and put the other ideas on the back burner until they show their usefulness in another time and place.

I generally apply this technique to reading books, no matter who wrote them or what they are about. I believe everything they say until I am finished reading it. I accept it all, thus, I comprehend any sense that may exist there.

After reading it, and discovering any truth or logic there, I let my knowledge of the rest of reality test that idea, and illuminate its strengths and weaknesses.

Thus, I not only gain more knowledge, I gain more sorts of knowledge. I gain a knowledge of what the book is really trying to say, something I would miss if I read it with preconceptions.

I gain a knowledge of what the real weaknesses or flaws in the argument are. Something I would have no real idea of if I had not truly understood the book. For you cannot truly destroy an argument unless you truly understand it.

I also gain a knowledge of how closely the beliefs of people about what the book says are to what the book really says. The difference here is frequently tremendously surprising.

I think that thinking is an awful lot like hunting is described to be. I am no hunter, so imagination must take the place of knowledge here. In hunting, you are stalking game.

In thinking you are stalking ideas. In hunting and in thinking you can start out with a clear idea of what you are seeking, deer for examply, or a general idea, anything for the stewpot to feed your family for example. The process of thinking and hunting is similar.

There is a great deal of time spent looking around. Either moving or waiting. Then, you come on some sign of your quarry. A footprint or other spoor. In thinking, this is some connection between ideas, or a new idea. You follow the spoor.

Such following has distinct rules. If deer hunting, you will not follow the tracks of hares. If seeking an idea for a water heater, you will probably not read books about quasars. Yet, if just looking for food, or new ideas, you will at least make note of what you find. Maybe you will follow that hare if nothing better shows. Maybe some comment on interstellar radiation will help you design a better solar water heater.

You know though that when you find your deer, or your idea, that if you do not take it then, you will never get it again. A deer, even the same deer taken a week later will be a different deer, the antlers may have been shed, it may have lost weight, or grown.

Similarly, an idea onece lost, even if caught again will not be the same, and what you get from it may not be the same. Some hinted at promise may have slipped your mind and may never return. You can only grasp dimly at what you have lost.

There is a terrible tragedy in someone who loves thinking for its own sake in every idea that he has lost, somehow it seems that the ones that got away are the ones that must have been the best of all. Still, the ones that you take home, do the same thing for you that the animal caught by the hunter does for him.

Once caught and skinned and stored away, an idea can provide a better source of food, a warmer place to live, better clothing, or simply food for thought. The deer itself is an idea made real, something that started out in the brain of the hunter. He knows that deer exist, he hunts one because his family needs food, and he gets it. It takes terrible concentration to successfully stalk and catch an idea.

People who do it well are famous for their absentmindedness. They have minds for only the ideas that they pursue. Everything else fades into the background. Similarly the hunter on the trail focuses on the spoor he follows, on the perfect sight picture and on the perfect squeeze of his trigger knowing that lack of concentration will lose him his quarry.

Frequently, the hunter if asked what he is hunting might have to think a minute to reply. His mind is on the specific task of the moment. Interpreting the droppings for age, disease, vitality of the quarry, looking for prints. Observing the terrain for a likely hiding place. In fact at any given time in the hunt he is not looking for his quarry, he is looking for the next critical clue in discovering his quarry.

So it is with the thinker. He is looking for the next logical step in the sequence of thought that leads to his idea/solution. If you ask him what he is looking for, like the hunter he may reply in a number of ways, specifically and to you meaninglessly with the details of what exactly he is looking for at the time.

He may reply generally by saying that he is looking for an idea, or he may reply even more generally that he is seeking clues. The hunter might reply specifically that he is seeking a hiding place, or deer, or spoor. To both the hunter and the thinker you question seems impolite, badly timed, and probably ignorant.

Both are caught up in the thrill of the chase, and neither has time for anythng else. This book has origins in thought. I was looking for ideas on how to live after I retired from the military.

I read hundreds of books looking for clues, and I hunted and caught many ideas. Most of them gestalt creations not specifically originating in any one book or frequently common to many books on a given subject. In addition, because I was hunting, and not just for deer, i caught a good many ideas that were not necessarily the specified subject of my hunt.

Nonetheless, if they were interesting I noted them down in my notebook, a laptop computer which allowed me to index everything alphabetically as I entered it. A great help when adding notes to my file. This book does not have very many conclusions. I will attack my retirement well armed with ideas, not bound by opinions. I will try to use the best ideas I can as the actual circumstances of my land require it.

If I have to discard one idea that I particularly loved because it proved impractical in detail, I know that I will have a fine store of other ideas in reserve, and based on experience, I know that I will be able to make some of them work to produce a pleasant if slightly eccentric mode of life.

That is the whole purpose of this book, to record inspiration, as a hunter might record waterholes and favored feeding places of his game. So that when I need an idea, I can find where to seek it out. The book is divided into two parts, brainstorming and bibliography.

The brainstorming part gives me a place to refer to things by topic to see what options seem open.

The bibliography gives me a running chronicle of books that I have read, so I know which ones I will want to find again and which ones I won't when I am attacking specific problems that I might meet in trying to find a peaceable life next to the land.

The thoughts in the brainstoring section are rich and sometimes funny and promising but not necessarily practical or finished. Each entry in the bibliography is accompanied by a brief note about the book to help me decide if the book is worth looking up for specific answers in the future.

After a while as I was doing all this, it occurred to me that other people might be interested in the same questions that interested me, and that therefore, they might be interested both in my thoughts and in the bibliography on this sort of subject matter. More than that, looking at the whole thing, I thought it might make a good read.

For those people who like me read for pleasure and seek books on the basis of them being a good read. This second audience legitimized all of the entries that did not pertain specifically to the organic natural solarpowered selfsufficient lifestyle that the book was seeking a path to, because, such entries provided a wider and more colorful range of thought and increased the possible appeal to a much wider range of people. With such thoughts, the title of the book changed from 'The Samurai Sword and Dynamite Approach to Organic Gardening and Living' to simply 'Brainstorming'. 

Not all of the ideas in this book are tested scientific facts, they are ideas, some are extremely interesting, others colorful, others controversial. Sometimes an ideas worth lies not in its own validity, but in the inspiration it provides for other ideas. Some of the dieas here are like that, interesting explorations of philosophies that I myself do not embrace, but which in some way or another illuminate or suggest other lines of thought. I do not pretnd or suggest that everything in this book is a fact or that it will all be verified someday. Hopefully it will all help to stimulate your own thoughts and speculations. It is worth noting that I started reading books on gardening and living closer to the earth because such books, gardening books are written with love, and it is a strange thing, but books written with love share that love with those who read them. Like everyone else, I can never get enough love. Reading such books was sufficient pleasure in and of itself to keep me going. I doubt that this book is as filled with healthy love as a gardening book by someone who has gardened all his life, still, I would conclude by saying that I sincerely hope that you will find it to be a good read. 

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ANTENNA: In keeping with my desire to enjoy all the benefitsof modern technology along with growing my own food, it isnecessary to plan on installing antennas for satellite TVreception, etcetera. Probably the way to do this is to builda mount in to the roof of my underground house when theconcrete roof is poured. Such a mount would be strong, andcould be adapted to different antennas as technology dances
about with changes and modifications. In addition, a high antenna on a tower would go with anumber of other ideas which make a tower almost mandatory. Awindmill also needs to be raised high above the local treetopline. An observation post for observing the neighborhoodfalls into the survival thinking mode. In addition, everycastle needs a high tower, even if the real castle isunderground. Combining these things in one tower would be
logical if technically feasible.


AMARANTH: for breakfast. Since the grain is normally servedpopped with caramel as a candy, it might suit itself well toa role as a breakfast cereal. Pop a cup or so in a hot airpopper add honey and milk. Voila a breakfast cereal. Fromthe people who gave you squash, watermelon, beans, tomatoes,popcorn, corn and potatoes now comes amaranth a nativeamerican food plant. Healthy, natural, and unprocessed. Of
course, I still have to discover how it tastes.


AMERICAN WAY: There is a distinct relationship betweenindependence and democracy, dependence and tyranny. Romestarted out as a primitive sort of republic where rulers wereelected like tyrants in greece were elected. The rise ofdependence of the multitude of roman citizens upon handoutsfrom the richer patrician class and the caesars led to thedestruction of a responsible citizen class, the decline ofreal responsibility on the part of the electorate and thecreation of tyranny. This was accelerated by theeffectiveness and benevolence of some of the early emperorswho made tyranny seem like a good thing. This process inanalogous to what happens in a skinner box, where acontrolled environment is used to allow for completebehavioral conditioning of an animal. In many ways a societyis a skinner box that conditions the behavior of itscitizens. Dependence leads to dependent behavior,helplessness, a population which has lost the ability to make
its own world. This is the opposite of the american way. Independence on the other hand produces people who knowthey can shape their world and who will shape a government toplease themselves, not be dependent on its whims. A man whois in the habit of picking up a gun, a plow, a hammer, or aan axe to shape his home, and provide his food or energyneeds for himself will set his mind in the habit of shapingthings and the feeling that he can control his destiny. Thisbedrock attitude will naturally effect his political
behavior, and this is an essential part of the American Way. Centralized power plants remove the ability of a man tocontrol his world. He is dependent on someone else to heathis home, cook his food, and entertain himself. The degreeto which this dependence has a destructive effect on theAmerican Way is directly proportional to the totality of hisdependence on utility companies and his powerlessness to
control them. In addition, centralized power companies are manned bysmall numbers of highly trained men, reducing the employmentthey provide and increasing the average mans feeling that hehimself cannot make power. Nuclear plants are the worst
offenders in this regard. Home based solar, wind, and other energy sources have theopposite effect. Since each man has his own power makingequipment in his home, he has that American feeling that hecontrols his own needs. In addition, that equipment createsa multitude of jobs in the energy industry, salesmen to sellit, repairmen to fix it, writers to write about it, etc.Overall, there is no doubt to my mind that home generatedpower and homes that increase your independence from centralutility companies strengthen that subtle something that makesan American, while centralized and giant utilities weaken it.See also Capital Intensive, Electoral College, Optimism,
Pessimism, Interfacing.
ANIMALS, DOMESTIC: One of the great tragedies of modernmankinds way of life is the loss of the learning potentialinvolved in being responsible for other living things. Thisloss of an opportunity to learn responsibility in this areamust inevitably result in a loss of responsible behavior inthis area. Further, animals that have been raised by humansfor millenia are adapted to that relationship in one degreeor another they expect and accept domination by people. Thismeans that children who have pets have bonds of affection andloyalty to fall back on when the rest of the world seemsagainst them. More, having an animal dependent on them,which they must feed and care for teaches them in a verybasic way that living with other beings is a give and take.A dog may play with you, fight for you, and make you feelgood when you feel bad, but you have to feed him, groom him,clean up his messes, and teach him what is and is notacceptable behavior. You have to pay a price in time andeffort, to reap the benefits of companionship. This is animportant lesson. Animals are people to, and therelationship between children and pets is more a people-people relationship than anything else. Some animals arevery large, horses and cattle for example. By working withsuch animals as children, they learn that firmness andstrength can allow them control over parts of their livesthat appear on first glance to be to big for them to handle.Such control can give them greater freedom in their livesthan they could otherwise have. There is more in commonbetween the relationships between people and therelationships between people and domestic animals than mostpeople would like to believe. Much of humaninterrelationship is based on who is stronger, who is moredominant, who is faster, who is firmer, who is moredetermined. This is the fundamental question in animal humanrelationships as well. Many intellectual persons would liketo ignore this entire area of communications and socialrelationships. This is not safe, and it develops childrenwho are not balanced or well prepared for dealing with peoplewho base their relationships on the same basis that animalsuse. Since this is the basis used in all gangs , groups ofstreet people, and the United States Army, it is not safe toignore such an enormous arena of activity if you want yourchildren to be able to deal effectively with the world theymust live in. Helping them to raise and train domesticate animals is probably the best way for them to learn suchskills. The world would be much improved if every teenager
had a horse instead of every teenager having a car.
ANIMALS, FUR FARMING: Sometimes, people get silly aboutthings. Hitler for example did not eat meat because heobjected to the cruelty to animals which could not defendthemselves. Or so the rumor goes. From what I have readabout him, he would fit right in with most of the extremistecology groups. While I agree with most ecology groups intheir stated aims, and am perfectly willing to fight for myright and the right of my children to have a healthy livingenvironment to live in. Sometimes the extremes becomeenormously embarrassing to me. The recent anti-fur movementis a major example of this. People are crowding all theanimals in the world out of existence. Only those species ofusefulness to mankind are being maintained in existence inany numbers. Those that do not have a recognized value tomankind are in constant potential danger of becoming extinct.This is especially true of those which are vicious andbloodthirsty predators likely to hurt mama tourist childrenwhen they poke them with a stick. Virtually all of thequality fur bearing animals fall into this category. Ifindustry ceases to raise them for furs, the probability oftheir becoming extinct is increased greatly because theirusefulness to mankind is decreased greatly. Attacking thefur industry is an indirect attack on the possibility ofsurvival of these species. I am therefore in favor of thefur industry, the meat packing industry, and any otherindustry which through exploitation of animals helps toensure the survival of some species other than mankind. Thelower man moves down the food chain in obtaining his food,the greater the danger of extermination of all life abovethat level on the food chain due to his greed for living s
pace.


APPLE FRIES: It occurs to me that apples could be cut up asfor french fries and fried in the same fashion then servedsprinkled with cinnamon sugar instead of salt for an
interesting treat. Something I must try someday.


AREA provided by a thirty foot tube 100 ft long with threelevels is roughly 7600 square feet of floor area. Two levelsbeing easily lit and warmed by windows in the south facingsurface. The bottom level becomes storerooms, etc whereartifical light is necessary. This bottom level is roughly1800 square feet. This leaves 5800 square feet of pleasantnaturally lighted living area. If one increases the length
of the tube, this area naturally increases.


AREA2: A tube only 20 feet in diameter produces 3100 squarefeet of living area. of this at least 600 feet has ceilingstoo low for a tall man to stand under. Ceilings aregenerally lower than in the larger tube. There is less of apalatial feeling to this size than to the larger tube.Window openings to the lower level are only 16 inches or so.Not enough for great light. only 1300 feet or so are reallygood living space. A design here would be to use the topfloor for living room area, and hallway and place bedrooms
and so forth in the lower area to retire to.


AREA3:a tube 10 foot in diameter gives 800 square foot ofliving area plus. Because of the dimensions however one room8' by 100', it does not lend itself to ergonomic design. Itis difficult to see it as being efficient for a family, butit might suffice for an eccentric bachelor pad. Anotherthought might be to have two or three of these tubes atdifferent levels making a stepped effect the roof of onebeing the yard of the next. With stairs connecting them atvarious points. This would allow for better design, but it
would still lack the potential for large family type rooms.


ASTROLOGY: One of the outlaw sciences. Not legal to studyif you wish to maintain your academic reputation. It isdistinguished in its history for several times reputablescientists have done studies attempting to prove that it didnot have any basis in fact. In every case that I am familiarwith, their studies proved that it was effective. The resultbeing the loss of their academic reputations. So much of ourhistory and culture is colored by astrology, evenshakespeares plays are full of references to it. It is wellworth study. Yet, a cautionary note. Some people attempt toguide their lives by the stars. Avoiding activities oncertain days due to malefic aspects on their charts. Thisseems logical on the surface. However, consider this. Thespeed of sound was broken by a man with a broken rib. I haveknow tourneys won by men with broken hands. Sometimes itseems that accidents happen to you just before the attempt ofsome major task. Certainly, on such days your astrologerwould say, 'Stay at home' if you were guided by such counsel,much that is great would never have been accomplished.Malefic aspects are a source of energy, just as beneficaspects are. When they impact your chart, it shows a sourceof energy to be used. It is challenging to use that energy,but it can accomplish great things. Those who strive in theface of risk accomplish more than those who avoid risk.Those who take advantage of the energy available at suchtimes have more sources of energy than those who cast itaway. It is better I think to govern your actions by worldlyconsiderations as to when to attempt things than by the
stars. In the long run, you will be the stronger for it.


AWE: Awe is one of the basic tools of gevernment. Modern mensometimes forget this and like to pretend that government byreason is the natural form of human government. In fact,most ancient civilizations tended towards government by awe,not government by law. It is an easy and emotionallycomfortable method of government for most of mankind and cultof personality is one manifestation of it in the modern era.Government by reason or law, is harder to come by in manyways. In most early civilizations, the God/King was anessential building block of government, awe was an essentialfactor in the governance of the population. On the otherhand, among the ancient greeks, the early romans, the vikingsand the american indians, government by debate, popularassembly or reason and law if you will were equally commonlooking at the kinds of social behavior and the circumstancessurrounding the society can help describe those conditionsthat promote government by awe or government by law.Strangely, the closer to their primitive roots, the strongerthe tendency to government by law or reason seems. On theother hand, the God King is a fixture of relatively highcivilizations with long histories and sophisticated cultures.The two factors that this suggests are critical aregovernment control of the individuals freedom, and thestrength of the individual versus the king/state. Both ofthese correlate strongly with the age of the culture. Bothof these are also basically measures of the strength of theindividual versus the all powerful government. In primitiveamerindian societies the ability of the tribal goernment togovern the individual was limited both by the strength of thetribal leaders versus the individual and the fact that amember of the tribe could just get up and leave if he wantedto. Thus, no member of the tribe could be coerced to dosomething he wasn't convinced to do. This placed the burdenof leadership on the leader. He had to be able to convincethe members of his tribe to follow his lead. Europeanscoming to America were universally impressed by the oratoryof indian leaders. The least important speakers at an indiangathering spoke with an oratory worthy of Cicero. The focuson oratory as an essential skill was also typical of the greeks and early romans, two other cultures that had government by reason or law. This is not a coincidence. In all societies, in all ages, people need to be convinced to follow a leader, but the more free the people, the more critical his skills at convincing are. Oratory is one of these critical akills. This freedom that the american indian possessed to leave his tribe is indicative of one of the measures we spoke of earlier, the control that his society exerted over him. The indian being free to leave at any time could not be compelled to obey. People entangled in the complex economic web of a sophisticated culture do not possess this freedom. It was missing in the societies of the God/Kings. We in America today, also find this freedom to just get up and leave difficult to come by. Among the Greeks, and the germanic tribes, and the vikings, such freedom may have existed, but another equally strong governor worked to limit the power of kings. There, the berserker was in evidence. If you read a good translation of old greek myths, you will find a note saying that many casual homicides have been omitted as not being essential to the story. Hercules was good at that, casually smashing the skulls of servants, and others who angered him. Any feast or gathering could easily result in the casual murder of one or more of the participants. Men losing their tempers to the point of homicide was so commonplace as to be of only mild importance. Becoming important only when a clan or tribal war erupted as a result. This is a measure of the strength of a king versus individual strength. This measureis only important when a portion of the populace is either stubborn enough to die for hopeless causes, or to fight without hope of victory. A king who insults a bersarker may get away with it once, but by the time he tries it three times, the tribe will probably need a new king. Thus, the presence of the berserker in the early indoeuropean cultures guaranteed the necessity of reason in the approach to rulership. There is a tendency however for berserks to be exterminated with the advance of sophisticated cultures. Within ten to twenty generations, he is eliminated by the murder of his fathers before they give him birth, under laws he is not temperamentally equipped to follow. With his dissappearance, in the past, the tradition of government by law has given way to
government by awe, and the attempt to make Caesar divine. The development of parliamentary government in England,with its traditions of individual rights. Is the result of anumber of successful challenges to the authority of the King.A balance of power existed in fact if not in law. The kingcould not control his lords, so he empowered commons to helphim. The strength of the individual versus the crown was thekey factor in establishing government by law in the BritishIsles. This individual strength came from the primitiveviking and saxon traditions that were still strong in thesaxons and normans in England. Probably reinforced by astill vital bersarker fraction among the normal lords ofearly England. In America, this freedom of the individualbecame more pronounced through necessity, the individual wastruly free and had to rely on himself and his own judgement,and through contact with the native american cultures whereprimitive democracy was alive and well, and leaders led byoratory rather than traditional awe towards their position.This living example interpreted through english tradition,and classical writings become the model for American
democracy.


AUGUSTUS CAESAR: Apparently Augustus Caesar accidentally destroyed Rome. He did this by being too good at his job. He was without doubt the best ruler that Rome ever had. He ruled for an extremely long time. Long enough for anyone who remembered how a rupublican form of government worked to be in his dotage. By the time he died, the political culture of Rome had lost all real remnants of functional republican government and the vast majority if not all the citizens could not conceive of any government other than that of a benevolent dictator. The office of Emperor had eclipsed and absorbed all other forms of government authority. Because they could not conceive of any other form of government, they continued to give total power to his successors, limited not by law, or tradition, but only by the personality and personal strength of that ruler. This resulted in a series of worse and worse rulers, and the eventual collapse of Rome. I am glad that a man can be president for only two terms. Not a life time. If it were possible for a man to be president for 50 or 60 years, the congress might become as powerless as the Roman Senate. It is what people believe in, not the letter of the law that
truly governs a land.

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BEES1: In case of human problems, bees can become an improvised defensive network. Have the hives fairly close to the house, and have a couple of those ultrasonic bug repellers close to the hives. Experiment a bit to tune them to just the frequency that drives bees crazy. Wire them to a switch in the house and the next time the Hells Angels come to visit hit the switch. Within a few minutes there should be a crowd of enraged bees in your yard. The major drawback to this is that it cannot be used at night very effectively because bees are definitely diurnal and not adapted to night flying. Killer trained cheetahs might be fun to.

BEES2: A perfect addition to the lazy mans retirement home. They prosper if you only really work with them every few months and give them as much peace and respect as possible. They make honey for your coffee, wax for your candles, and from their honey you can make wine. More than that, they command the respect of the world. Some of which you gain (with a reputation for eccentricity) by working with them. The southeast climate zone is an easy one to take care of bees in, however, it is not apparently a high yield area for bee hives. If I do have an excess to sell, I can call it Grim's Gold.

BIO: The author of these notebooks is a High School Dropout Texas Style. He got a GED a week or two after dropping out, went into the Navy where he tested to a BA with Concentrations in Sociology, Philosophy, Geography, History, Political Science, Literature, and met the requirements for a concentration in psychology, but his paperwork seems to have been lost. So what difference does it make, six or seven concentrations (majors) in a degree. Not much. Date of Canferral of his Degree was 3-28-80 from the University of the State of New York at Albany. Regents external degree program. He is now retired after 20 years, 12 Navy 8 Army. If you believe that there is value in people with powerful minds simply thinking about things, then you might send him money. As a formula, figure what you would spend for an hour of entertainment, say at the movies. Figure out how many hours of pleasure you get from these files, send him 10%. Its fair. You'll feel better. You can make checks or whatever payable to Stephen Huff, 24 Washington Ave., Evansville, IN 47713.

BREAKFAST IDEAS: See amaranth.

BREWING: This is one of the ideal hobbies for the lazy man. You take some sugary substance mix it with water and yeast and wait. Voila in a few weeks to a few years, you have a drink fit for either a peasant or a king. The care taken is common sense and not that hard to accomplish, and with proper care for cleanliness and temperature control an enormously wide variety of home brewed beers and wines becomes childsplay. It is so much fun to hoist a class of clear sparkling mead or beer and sip it chilled on a hot summer day while thinking, 'I Made This'. I am not sure that it is good for me, but it is too much good fun to quit. Besides, what else will I do with all the honey my bees will give me? This calls of course for a brewery. Brewing requires a place to heat the base material and water, and a place to store it for primary and secondary fermentation, and a bottling area. The major requirements are cleanliness and temperature control. Since temperatures in an underground area such as a cave or cellar naturally approach the optimum for yeast growth, a room on the lowest level away from the sun would be the appropriate area to place the fermentation room. A similar room is needed for cheese making and other stillroom food handling. Though I am not so expert in these areas as I am at brewing, a tentative location in the lower level of the house seems logical. Probably have to put that brewery storeroom next to the food storage room next to the kitchen. Close to the honey house and shop. A still room in the same area for making cheese, etc. Might be incorporated into the honey house. I don't know, I know I can handle honey. I am not sure about milk, cheese, etc, though the books don't make it seem impossible. Much like brewing. In addition, the yeast residues from brewing are wonderful fertilizer for the garden. When asked what I am doing when making wine and beer, simply say making fertilizer. Should blow some peoples minds.

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CAPITAL INTENSIVE: Much of the research that is increasing mans ability to live in harmony with nature is very expensive to do. It cannot be done without the investment of large amounts of capital into research. Advances in human ability to exist at peace with his universe come from all areas of human endeavor no matter how destructive they may on the face of it seem. These things cannot be done without large concentrations of capital. That calls for huge corporations and immensenly wealthy individuals who see a reason for doing such things. The world would thus be a worse place without megacorporations, giant government projects, and the disgustingly rich.

CAPITALISM: For some reason, unknown to me capitalism is identified with America's political system, and communism is identified with Russia's and China's political systems. There is some justification in this where Russia and China are concerned, they claim to be communist. Actually, they are politically speaking Marxist, Maoist, Stalinist, Leninist or some otherist that is properly political. Communism and capitalism are economic systems or choices, while Democracy and the various totalitarian regimes mentioned above are political systems. In America we have always had the right to be communist, capitalist, or whatever we wanted to be as long as we respected the rights of others to follow another road. This respect for the rights of others is the first and most sacred duty of an American. If youre not prepared to fight for the rights of your neighbor, whatever power you raise up to remove his rights will eventually devour your own rights as well. Capitalism is not clearly defined in my mind as either an economic or political philosophy. Americans are guaranteed the right to own property. We are also guaranteed the right to give our property away if we want to. We are free. Not every American is a capitalist. In America, I think we see capitalist as something that the rest of the world calls us. I am not sure that it has anything really to do with what we are. Capital however is a form of power. Capital is that reserve of money and valuable properties which an individual or a business or a government holds as the basis for its power. In this sense, kings were the first capitalists. Kings owned the entire countries which they ruled. All power came from their dispensing rights over their cap ital (land) to others (nobles) who held that land and its fruits as a right from the king. Kingdoms were not democracies. They were governments founded on capital possession. In this sense they can be considered a pure form of capitalism. In this sense, capitalism lends itself to a totalitarian government form as easily as communism does, and being a capitalist is no more a guarantee of the rights of mankind than being a communist. I sincerely believe that it is wrong to identify America with capitalism. By doing so we may identity the interests of Americans with the interests of the largest concentrations of capital in our country. I.E. government and big business. Either of these make good servants and poor masters. Both must be the servants of the people. Both are constituted for the single purpose of providing services to the people. The government accepts our tax money and provides us services paid for by these taxes. Businesses offer services to us and we choose which we will pay for. Both have no justification for their existence other than serving the needs of the people. Identifying their needs with the needs of the citizens of America is like identifying the needs of a car before the needs of its owners. It is a mistake. America is America, Americans are free to choose what they will be. Most of us prefer a compromise between pure capitalism and a state controlled system. We balance the powers of the one against the other to maintain our freedom and control over both. Both originating to serve our needs, both must remain responsive to our needs. America, of the people, by the people, and for the people. Capitalist is just something that communists called us. A name like the Great Satan that some islamic countries like to throw at us. Let us not make the mistake of worshipping wealth, just because some fools across an ocean called us a name. Lest in another generation we worship Satan because some other fools called us the great satan. There is not after all, that much of a distance between wealth and satan.

CANCER: One thing strikes me as being common in many forms of cancer. That is that the cancer is induced gradually over a period of time during which something is done which irritates the area where the cancer develops. Irritation is a mild form of damage. The more often that cells are damaged the more often they have to reproduce. The more often cells reproduce the higher the chance that there will be an error in their reproduction of dna, since cancer is a disorder of a cells normal reproduction cycle. Simple irritation of cells will cause cancer. This many than anything and everything can cause cancer, and any habits which cause irritation at the cellular level will cause cancer. Possibly the incidence of cancer would increase whe re cellular reproductions was forced beyond the natural design limits of the system when sufficient balanced material for reproduction was not properly available. Causing the irritation while adding chemical pollutants to the cellular environment will increase the chances of dna binding in an unusual fashion with chemicals that are present during the duplication process producing aberrant dna, and increasing the chances of cancer even more. Some chemicals will be more likely to combine with or produce aberrations in the dna as it replicates than others. These chemicals could realistically be considered chemically carcinogenic. Those things which merely cause cancer by irritating cells and causing increased cellular reproduction should be considered physically carcinogenic. I do not know if researchers in this area make any such differentiation.

CAMOFLAGE: Those speed racer color change toy cars inspired the idea of a paint that would change color with temperature changes. Regular green, brown and black for summer, lighter colors or white for winter in snowy areas depending on the temperature.

CAUSALITY, CIRCUMTEMPORAL: The phenomena when a clear causal loop works backwards through time. Many examples of this are found in greek myths about kings trying to avoid a fate that has been prophecied for them. Their own actions bring the fate to pass. Since a significant dissimilarity exists between amind convinced of a given fate and any idea which would cancel that fate, the principle of similarity prevents temporal paradox in such cases.

CHERISH: Cherish is a word that applies to an action that men are supposed to do towards women. Love and cherish, like the word love, it is difficult to define clearly. Let us try however, because it is an essential part of what men are supposed to give women in a relationship. A man cherishes the things that are good in his life. Favorite possessions, children, memories, even sometimes his wife. When a man cherishes, his heart should be filled with quiet rejoicing as he remembers how good the item that he cherishes has been for him. Cherishing is a lot like nurturing. The difference is that you cherish people and items for qualities they already possess, while you nurture people towards the promise of what they might become. This does not mean that the qualities are already apparent. The qualities that a man cherishes a woman for may be apparent only to him in the rosy colored gaze of love. Cherishing helps to make the qualities that a man loves a woman for more manifest in the woman. If you consider the principles of similarity and conversion, and consider cherishing in this light alongside various magical and occult meditations as described in basic handbooks on the subject, it becomes obvious that cherishing is a basic magical/spiritual operation, with a distinct effect upon the spirit of the object being cherished. Love is also defined in this manner, cherishing might be defined as a specific subcategory or operation associated with effectively loving someone. It is worthwhile to note that while our society pretends that magickal/spiritual operations are superstition, it makes most of the essential ones available for a price by persons trained to perform them under another name. Most of the artistic professions call for as much magical talent as they do anything else. A doctor's bedside manner is a magical act. Cherishing is performed professionally by hairdressers and beauticians. Let us describe this process to make it clear. The person to be cherished enters a beauty salon. The cherisher studies the subject, looks for qualities that the person already possesses that can be developed by his skills to make her appear beautiful. He must focus on the subject, visualize the result, and then holding this visualization clearly in his mind, he spends a fair amount of time fussing about her with his powders and his liquids bringing his visualization out more clearly. It might seem silly to suggest that such a commonplace operation is magical, but it doesn't matter if you call a screwdriver a hammer or not, it still makes a better screwdriver than a hammer. When you focus your mind, seek inside for inspiration, visualize the result and then concentrate upon bringing it into manifestation, you are going through all the steps involved in casting a spell. You can call it whatever you want to. Silly semantic games do not impress me. Looked at in this light, it becomes obvious that nothing that humanity does lacks a magical/spiritual side. It is useful now to look at how hairdressers are selected for their magical talent and ability in a society that does not recognize the existence of magic. Their clients judge them on how beautiful they feel when they leave. This feeling is largely a result of the magical side of the operation, reinforced by the physical operations that were performed. It is a result of being cherished the more effective the cherishing, the better the feeling. The better the feeling, the better the reputation of the professional involved. In addition, people who feel beautiful are beautiful. A man who fails to cherish his lady, thus is somewhat at fault if his lady ceases to be beautiful after some time. On the other hand, if a lady makes herself a source of pain and unhappiness in a mans life, it is doubtful that he will be able to cherish her effectively. Further, when a man cherishes his lady, he goes a little bit deeper than a beautician, all of the reasons that he has to remember her with love and gratitude should be in his heart at once. All of the ways in which she makes life better for him. One of which will be simply that she gives him someone to cherish. Such a feeling can be so intense as to be almost painful. It is not the right time to say, 'A penny for your thoughts'. A woman being cherished should be like a cat in the sun, simply bask in it. A woman who is properly cherished will grow better and more beautiful year by year. A man who strives to have a good life, should strive to develop his own ability to cherish those he loves. He should seek a woman for whom there is a natural inclination to cherish. A woman should want a man who will cherish her. The discussion so far has been largely of how cherishing is built into our society as a magical operation without its existence being acknowledged. It should be pointed out, that magical operations such as a doctors bedside manner will not cure scurvy without vitamin c, and that a beauticians cherishing of a client will not cure bad skin caused by too much makeup if the client insists on using too much makeup. It is dangerous to ignore the physical side of things and say the spirit is all , just as it is dangerous to ignore the spiritual side of things and say it doesn't exist. Two of the worst follies of witchcraft, not wicca, though I am sure some wiccans are guilty of it as individuals, but that common hedgemagic that has become so widespread in recent years are involved in this cherish situation. You could call them claim jumping and self abuse, both the fault of power without wisdom. Claim jumping is when a witch feels the love that a man has for another woman, and says 'I want that for myself' she then ensorcels the man to make him desire her. She however is not the same person that the other woman is. The man's reaction to her is going to be different, and his feelings towards her are going to be different. His desire and love are going to be of a different quality when inspired by her than when inspired by someone else. Usually, if she was inspired to steal his affection because of the quality of his affection for someone else, the quality of his affection for her will be worse. Not as some sort of karmic punishment, but simply because th e odds are that any truly great thing will be messed up if you randomly change its makeup. The combination of two people that produces a great love is a combination of two people, not just the man. Change one of the two people and the quality of the love will change. If it was a great love, such a random change will probably make it not quite as great. So witches end up destroying love when they try to steal it. This is not good. Then you have the witch who has successfully ensorceled a man. The combination turns out to be a good one and the man loves and cherishes the witch. While he is doing this the witch is saying to herself, 'he doesn't really love me, its only the spell'. This effectively blocks the positive effects of loving and cherishing. The witch denies herself the very things that she used magic to get. This is an especially common problem because most witches who use magic to get a man do it because they didn't think that they could get a man without magic. Which means that they do not really think that they are that lovable to begin with. This detracts from the quality of life of both the witch and the man who loves her. These kinds of silliness are why witches do not command the respect of wise men. I can remember when I was younger, I thought it was sort of nice to have some witch try to ensorcel me. An honest compliment. It meant at least that she wanted something from me, not necessarily that she loved or liked me. I no longer find it flattering. The energy needed to ignore such spells and get on with my life is better spent on other pursuits. Ladies, really, leave me alone. The moral of the discussion so far, is that magic, such as cherishing is generally better when it happens naturally. This is true, it is best to work with nature rather than against nature. On the other hand cultivated fruit is generally larger and sweeter than wild fruits. Some people find it easier to improve the quality of their lives by understanding and focusing spiritual matters. Something like cherishing can be done knowingly and practiced like meditation. The two are very similar in the sense that cherishing could be considered a form of meditation and those who are good at meditation could acquire a skill at cherishing fairly easily. Focusing and visualizing the purpose of what you are doing is important in all areas of life. Again, in good situations, this happens naturally. A woman who loves her family prepares food with love. She is naturally focused on wishing good things for her family, on their good health, nourishment, and happiness. This focus improves the quality of the food, and the appetite of those who eat it. Natural magic. For some, good magic happens naturally in many aspects of their lives. For those who are not this lucky, then focusing and visualizing the good fruits of day to day actions is a magical skill to be practiced. The easiest and possibly the best way of doing this is to find a good church, attend regularly, and practice sanctifying everything you do. A short prayer before meals, etc. Most churches teach a fair amount of magical wisdom in day to day affairs. Though they generally do not know what they are doing.

CONVERSION, PRINCIPLE OF: The process by which electromagnetic energy is converted into tachyon patterns and tachyon patterns of energy are converted into electromagnetic energy. Such conversion occurs constantly at the subatomic level. Each time a particle leaps from one shell to another, it emits or absorbs a quanta of energy. This process involves the momentary conversion of that particle to a tachyon and its return to particle status. This establishes the tachyon (spiritual) bodies which all matter possesses and whic some clairvoyants possess the capability of observing. The energy released or absorbed is termed Cerenkov radiation. Different patterns of matter produce different patterns of tachyon (spiritual) energy. These patterns are self maintaining and being tachyon possess the capability of moving across time from one potential to another. This potential of being is determined by the similarity of one material area to another. Thus the proximity of tachyon (spiritual) patterns is measured in terms of similarity. All precognition, prophecy, and mantic operations (excepting astromancy), depends upon this simple principle for its operation.

COMMITTEE: The classic definition of a committee is a creature with a lot of heads and no brain. When it comes to introducing different solutions to old problems, i.e. solar power instead of petroleum power, it seems more like a creature with lots of legs and no balls. Industry and government don't have the balls to go solar, and the American people is so used to taking whatever industry and government give them that the people don't have the balls to try it. This is sad.

COMMUNICATIONS: One of the survival ideas that is attractive is a good ham radio station. Of course, I am not a HAM, and have no licenses or other qualifications in this area. Still, it would be pleasant to incorporate the ability to monitor short wave broadcasts around the globe for entertainment and education and just neat things to do. I can imagine evenings spent with my friends, just tuning in to some of the mysterious stations that broadcast from different corners of the globe. It is a real way of exploring our world from the living room. Exciting and adventurous as sailing the ocean or watching a solar eclipse.

COMPLEXITY: Simplicity vs complexity, therein lies the rub. There is the reason for so many things. If you know something, then you know it. It is that simple. Yet, nothing is that simple. There is a supersititios awe of the human body. Cutting it, removing organs, these are evil things. In the early days of modern medical science, the students of human anatomy had to pay graverobbers to steal human cadavers to practice surgery on. These ghouls then cut up the bodies of people who had done them no harm. Today, we have more respect for the need of surgeons to practice on human bodies, and acknowledge that not every person who cuts human flesh is a sadistic ghoul. Our understanding has become less simple more complex we have exceptions and special circumstances learned not from our gut feelings but hard experience. This I suppose is wisdom. Everything is like that. People who know things are really the most ignorant people in the world. Only people who are pretty sure of things but open to new information really understand anything. It is probable that the answer to the question of how there can be evil in a universe created by a loving god lies in this simple vs complex keynote. Our minds are simple, His complex, we know that things are evil because they hurt. In truth were our understanding like His, we would probably know nothing as evil at all. Evil is probably nothing but a hallucination in the fog of our ignorance and lack of understanding.

COMPOST: Blackgold, the decayed residues of vegetable and other organic materials which added to the garden are a veritable panacea for all the ills of the garden. Making it, especially with modern methods sounds like a lot of work. Some ideas seem to be good work savers. One of these is the idea of a multilevel compost bin, where the compost is turned by dumping it from the highest bin to the next lower, to the bottom. This method seems to me to be a fine one. Though I like Ruth Stouts method best. She just put hay on her garden for a mulch and lets it compost in place. It works for her. I don't want to work hard when I retire, I want to work fun. This method is also used by a Japanese farmer who uses only the rice straw from his own fields and clover to fertilize his land and produces commercial harvests after 25 years of using such methods. Fukuoka is his name. Interesting book about him.

COOKING: The trouble with being absent minded and cooking is what happens whenever you leave something on the stove and then suddenly are struck with some inspiration concerning the secrets of the universe. Pots and pans are no respecters of the secrets of the universe. They do make really good clouds of smoke and flame if neglected. This situation makes marriage seem like a really good idea. At least it did until I discovered that I was a better cook than most 'modern' women. It's pretty sad.

COOKING: Cooking is one of the areas in which computers are not being used in their proper manner. Most cooking magazines include new recipes each month that are presumably for the use of their readers. If these magazines offered a database software that handled recipes effectively, and then included a disk with the issues recipes in it, cooks could print out menus, select dishes, and generate shopping lists for meals directly from their computer with a minimum of fuss and bother. The program itself would sell better if most major or at least two or three major cooking magazines were using the same software. This would also effect the sales of such magazines, such magazines selling to computer owners better than those that did not offer such a service. In time, the service would become a standard. The key to its real success would be including the disks at little extra charge. Something that is surely feasible given the low price of disks in quantity and the fact that no programming, only typing of recipe information into computer database would be necessary to provide the service. Probably the entire process could be done in much the way the recipes are processed for printing today. There is probably some nice money to be made there by someone.

Radiant COOLING provided by cold water reservoir buried on north side of tube. Water is cooled by exposure to night sky, covered with insulative reflective cover during the day. Provides a reservoir of cold even near freezing water for Ice drinks, and air conditioning during the summer. Arabs produced ice in this manner. Indians produced water this way, and they did not have the materials available to them that we do today. This cold water could be circulated through pipes with a fan blowing through them to cool air for an energy efficient cooling system. Cool water would naturally flow from the reservoir to the low point in the pipes as it absorbed heat it would rise and be replaced by cooler water from above.

COOLING: Normal heating and refrigeration systems are best explained if you look at heat as the amount of molecular activity measured in a specific volume of area. If you increase the volume that the molecules take up without increasing the activity , there is an apparent decrease in heat. refrigeration and airconditioning systems operate by taking a volatile liquid and compressing it to a liquid form, (this is why they need compressors). The liquid is passed through pipes in a heat exchanger where it is cooled to basically ambient or room temperature. It is then pumped into a vacuom filled system of pipes where it expands. This expansions loweres the amount of molecular activity in the volume that it occupies. This cooler gas passing through the container of the system and absorbs heat. Thus the area is cooled. An analogy would be a playground full of school children. Together they produce a tremendous amount of noise. They could be deafening. Distribute them back to their homes, and while just as active and noisy (as any mother will attest), their ability to deafen is reduced by their being spread over a comparatively larger area. In this analogy noise is equivalent to heat. This is basically how a refrigerator or air conditioner works. The interesting thing about this is that there is no essential requirement for electrical energy in this system. A mechanically driven compressor could do as well. A windmill hooked up to a compressor, or a water wheel hooked up to the compressor and pump could accomplish the same mission. Passive powered refrigeration is therefore neither impossible nor technically difficult to achieve. In fact a good man with tools could probably hook up a windmill or water wheel to an existing electrical refrigeration system. On the other hand for convenience you might want to just make and store electricity and use it for chores such at this. For reliability to prevent accidental thawing and spoilage of foods a backup electrical system would be needed. Another consideration here is the effect of freon on the ozone. However, freon free air conditioners are being developed for cars, whatever volatile gas or liquid they use should be easily adaptable to a home cooling system. The efficiency of any cooling system can be increased by passing the compressed gas or liquid through pipes in a precooled medium. Radiant cooling could be used to provide say ice or very cold liquid to provide this service. This is basically the principal on which heat pumps operate. Actually, if one were to create a cold room, with say thick walls filled with ice, or some medium capable of storing cold, than a system that operated on wind, water, or even solar electricity could cool it during high energy periods, and the stored cold from the reservoir could keep it cold until wind or other energy was available to cool the reservoir again. The size of the reservoir would depend upon the size of the cold room, and the expected periods when cooling energy would not ba available from natural sources. With modern insulation and materials the degree of independence possible to an environmentally conscious person is amazing.

MAXWELL's DEMON: The idea here is segregating hot and cold areas external to the house. One area designed to absorb heat energy and maintain it in storage on the south side of the house. the other being designed to radiate heat energy and prevent heat gain from causes such as convection, solar radiation, and conduction on the north side of the house. These two areas provide reservoirs of extreme conditions which can be drawn upon to provide heat and cold as needed within the dwelling area proper for comfort and food preparation. Certainly water should be hot enough to make coffee and water cold enough for ice tea straight from an appropriate tap. The key to successfully accomplishing this is to design with modern materials at the time of construction. Properly designed with an earth sheltered house, all routine heating and cooling needs should be capable of being provided in this manner. Nonetheless, an auxiliary heating system should be installed. A highly efficient fireplace since my property is covered with trees. Considering earth sheltering and other methods of cutting solar heat gain during summer, it should be possible to build a radiant cooling system with enough capacity to handle the needs of the house. Assuming of course that you are willing to make as massive a cold reservoir as passive heating systems use for heat.

CHICKENS: The chicken house is a natural source of fertilizer. Some people even allow their chickens to run wild in their gardens. An idea here is to have a poultry house that can be moved. Every six months or year or so, move the house until it is adjacent to a couple of different beds in your garden that you plan on leaving idle for that period. Set portable fences around the bed and provide exit from the poultry house to the bed. Which should have been planted with some crop such as comfrey or oats for the birds benefit. They eat, scratch up the ground devour cutworms and other bugs as they hatch and in general provide an environment hostile to the survival of various garden pests. Thus treated, the bed may be returned to production after a few months naturally fertilized and debugged. If you have chosen an attractive and ornamental variety of chicken, then in addition to eggs, meat, and fertilizer you get a garden ornament out of the deal. Naturally this can only be done in large gardens.

CREATIONISM: See also seeds wearing out, speciation.

CRITICAL MASS: Used as an analogy, critical mass becomes a measure of the strength and creativity of human society. In a nuclear reactor, critical mass is reached when the bombardment of atoms by ionizing radiation becomes self sustaining producing sufficient secondary radiation to bombard other atoms and produce more ionizing radiation so that the reaction does not stop. From such a mass comes the energy for a nuclear power station, or the explosion of an atomic bomb. In human society, free expression of ideas has the same effect. An idea communicated to a group of men stimulates new thoughts and ideas in the minds of a fraction of those men. These ideas are then communicated to other man, creating a chain reaction of thought and cre ativity which generates new technology and wealth for all members of that society to enjoy. Censorship, the classification of ideas and technology, or any other barrier to the free communication of ideas act to slow down or cripple this natural process. An historic example of this is Soviet Russia, where virtually all research was classified and what was not classified was limited to statements which could not be interpreted as nonsupportive of communism. This is why Soviets needed to steal most of their technology from the West. This freedom of the press, freedom and openness of scientific and professional literature which allowed soviets to follow our scientific developments as we made them was not a weakness, but one of our greatest strengths. In America, thousands of people were struck with the ionizing ideas of our professional literature, in many of them each idea set of a chain of new ideas and thoughts, a critical mass of creativity which kept us strong. In Russia, only a few individual cleared for access to the decadent western literature could read about these ideas and developments. Such a small handful of minds could never match the creative potential of an entire community of minds in a free country. This is why, no matter how good their espionage was the soviets could never keep us with the West in scientific developments. The Japanese are beating us because they maintain a healthy exchange of ideas, and back it up with hefty R&D budgets. While our own system is becoming crippled in some areas like the soviet system due to the abuse of patent laws. Here, companies classify all of their research in a given field, and publish none of it in professional journals, imitating the communist system of classification and censorship. Such ideas cannot stimulate other minds, because they cannot reach them, and the creativity of our professional community is crippled. This is an unfortunate and unhealthy trend for America and for American business.

CURARE: An interesting idea would be to load hollowpoint twenty two bullets with either curare or small lead shot coated with curare. The reason for the lead shot is to increase penetration of the poison into the target blood stream. There is a possibility that a hollow point will not fragment enough to ensure sufficient distribution of the poison. The bullet will however decelerate rapidly upon striking the target, the lead shot will continue at their previous rate of speed until they slow down themselves this should carry them far enough outside the point of the bullet to ensure the maximum entry of the curare into the target bloodstream. With a technique like this, a 22 could stop a grizzly bear.

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DEFENSE: SEE BEES, GEESE, GUINEA HENS, CURARE, VIOLENCE, SNIPER STRATEGY.

DRYING FOOD: Windows serve a large number of functions. Solar food dryer should be one with shelves built for this purpose in the Kitchen area of the house. This might run into some conflict with vines growing food which block the sun. An aux-heating system and a fan should be provided here as well to ensure that the capability for drying fruits and vegetables should meet the household need. Exhaust from the fan should be directable into the house or outside the house as desired. Depending on desired humidity gain or loss, scent of food being dried, and conservation or removal of heat. If a greenhouse were added next to and on the sunward side of the kitchen, this could serve as a solar food drying area during the harvest season and a greenhouse during the winter. Apparently direct solar heat is not the best method of drying some herbs and fruits. Direct solar radiation being full of ultraviolet has a degrading efect upon many of the volatile oils which you are tryng to preserve in the drying process. Some books recommend an electric heat source in a closed cabinet with a small fan to circulate air. It is still possible to accomplish this kind of drying using solar power. Instead of having a glazed receptor simply have a black box to convert the sunlight directly to heat. Or have a glazed receiver a two or three inch air space, and a black receiver. Bring air in the bottom it is heated by the solar radiation, it rises naturally and you exhaust it through your food dryer you thus get hot dry air with constant circulation through your food dryer. This would call for a food dryer built higher than the input unit which would be fairly large. It is however a useful thought for those items not suited to direct solar radiation drying.

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EAST SIDE: The eastside of the house gets the first sun ofthe morning. It is the traditional facing for houses in manyamerindian cultures. In home design, it should contain thosesolar collectors designed to provide early morning heatingand light to the residents. This does not give you heat forthe farmer who gets up and feeds the chickens before the sun
rises.


EDUCATION: I can remember shortly after I dropped out ofHigh School taking my kid brother's latin books and readingthem to keep him from thinking that he might ever get smarterthan me. One of the things I learned was that the old latinword for school was playroom. That is basic to the problemswe have with education today. Education is one of thegreatest natural joys available to mankind. About the onlytwo things that people do for fun that are not educationalare sex and eating. Everything else is educational in thesense that it is involved in learning something or testingsomething. Every sport is a set of skills that are studiedpracticed, and learned, every game is a test. Drivingrecklessly is a test of skill, and practice of a skill.Listening to stories that your friends tell is learning aboutthe world, while telling stories yourself is practice on yoursocial skills. EVERYTHING that people do for fun iseducational. Humans have a very strong learning instinct .So why does school suck? School is first an exercise inpower and domination, not an exercise of the mind. The firstthing you have to do in school is kiss the teacher's ass.Before you can learn anything, you have to give some strangerconplete control of your life. As much as people like tolearn, they hate being bossed around more. This is
especially true of adolescent boys. I like to say that all the best people drop out of highschool. Think about it, you either have brains, balls, bothor neither. If you have brains, then you know you're smarterthan the teacher. So why should you let them exert somepetty authority over you? If you have brains and balls, youdrop out. The only people who stay in either have no brains
or no balls. What could be more obvious than that? I don't encourage dropping out of high school. On theother hand. Playing with logic as in the above can be fun.Because any clever answer is clever, it is possible to dothings on your own, like a team sport, everyone can play.Logic ceases to be a tool that some teacher uses to make youfeel stupid and becomes a game. Among the ancient greeks andromans, you studied what you wanted with teachers you chose.You let them lead the class, because you knew you wanted to
learn what they had to teach. Students today are forced to go to school without anypersonal sense of its value. They know the paper is worthsomething, but who really uses all that stuff they teach you.The get no sense of personal worth from their studies. Inbasketball, they get to be part of the team. They can feelthemselves improving everyday. In math, as soon as you getone thing down, they start something else that makes you feelstupid. The teacher can always make you feel dumb, whetheryou are or not. I remember one year I had a teacher whoridiculed everything I did, as far as the rest of the classwas concerned, I was the dumbest kid in class. That sameyear, the same teacher had the principal punish me forreading material above my grade level . A lot of teachersare teachers just so they can exercise petty authority overtheir students. Who needs that. Public ridicule is not a
learning experience. On the other hand, we don't live in ancient greece orrome. Our students are not just the rich patrician class.We have several thousand years worth of math and science toteach our students, and the students are not all eager tolearn. Children, especially adolescents are going tochallenge authority. They need to, its instinctive. If theauthority folds up, they do not respect it. They will notlearn from those that they do not respect. On the otherhand, teachers who do not have the support of their PTA's,their school boards and federal and state law, have noability to control their classes. You can't afford towifflewaffle. You have to give the teachers authority tocontrol their classes. In a controlled environment, wherestudents are not ridiculed, learning will be fun, even if thestudents did not want to be there to begin with. Learning isthe most fun thing that people get to do. People like beinggood at things, and will strive to be good at anything that
they get a fair shot at.


ELECTORAL COLLEGE: In ancient days, the greeks and the romanswould get together and hold a council to select a leader,tyrant in greece, or rex (king) in rome. Normally they wouldtalk about different people who had shown by successfullyrunning their homes and farms that they possessed wisdom andability and choose this person to rule them. This is similarto the amerindian method of choosing a chief based onability. It works well enough in small societies wheresomeone who dislikes the chosen ruler can get up and leave.It becomes unworkable when such leadership is coupled withthe power to enrich ones friends and destroy ones enemies.In such 'developed' societies, power considerations becomemore important than the ability of the ruler, and rulers arechosen to maintain the power of ones own group. This leadsto the choice of leaders based entirely on the basis ofpersonal affiliations. This in turn leads to unstablegovernment and armed coups. The next step in the evolutionof government is a set method of succession such asheriditary transition of power. The medieval european rex orking. Again, this is not in any way based upon ability ofthe ruler, and leads to the chance of government coup toreplace the king with someone else. Our founding fathers hadclassical educations, and sought to recreate the virtues ofchoosing men based on merit to be our leaders even in amodern complex society which was based upon the inheritanceof property and power. Thus the electoral college. Thelegislatures choose wise men to represent their states andthese electors then come together to choose a man to be ourpresident. This is clearly designed to replicate thesensible 'primitive' method of choosing a man to lead basedon that man's demonstrated virtue and wisdom. Thus theelectoral college has the right, the power, and the duty toselect a president based upon their understanding of whichcandidate will be the best and wisest leader for our country,not on his standing not on the candidates standing in somebread and circuses popularity contest. Many of ourpresidents have been selected by the electoral collegedespite the popular vote, and not because of the popularvote. Abraham Lincoln was one of these. This is probably agood thing. It does not bother me at all to think that ourpresident is chosen not on the basis of popularity or who canhire the best pr men, but on the basis of his merits asperceived by a group of men chosen for their experience andresponsibility by our state legislatures. The electoralcollege is one of the greatest safeguards and protectionsthat exist to help keep our country free and well governed.History suggests that to date our founding fathers were atleast partially successful in their attempt to create aneffective and even 'wise' method of choosing our firstexecutive. Strangely, a popular understanding of this does
not seem to exist.
ELECTRICITY: There are certain functions for which the mostefficient energy is electricity. Music, television, stereo,computers, electric lights, etc. These are also not energyintensive. Heaters and refrigerators and air conditioningtake far more power than the biggest stereo a home is likelyto use. I can remember from my days on nuclear submarinesturning off the entire poseidon nuclear weapons fire controlsystem to get enough power to turn on one hot water heater.The house should be designed with plenty of electricaloutlets and attention to an automated house concept.Photocells that cover and uncover the radiant cooling systemas the sun rises and sets are probably worth their minor
energy cost compared to another method o f creating coolth. 

ENERGY GENERATION: A lot of activities done in the home areenergy generating activities as well as energy usingactivities. No work is done on harnessing this energy. Intheory, it might seem that the energy generated by peopledoing day to day activities, or by the airflow through achimney might be to small to worry about or take intoconsideration. It might, but in todays super insulatedhouses, the heat generated by children running up and downthe stairs is sufficient to raise the temperature of thehouse a few degrees by some accounts. In old farms, chemicalheat generated by the decomposition of manure was sufficientto heat hot frames for plants before the last frost of theseason. With a well designed house, only a small amount ofenergy is needed to handle its additional energy needs, andharnessing the energy produced by various actions andactivities within the house might become a major factor inefficient living in the future. Unlike wind and solar energy,energy generated by human activities, lighting the fireplace,running on a treadmill, riding an exercise bicycle, all couldbe harnessed and together provide useful energy free to a
family that needs it. I think that one of the problems with this is that it sounds too much like manual labor. Something for which most Americans have little respect. No one wants to be a manual laborer. Everybody wants to be the CEO or at least Senior VP. If you hook a treadmill up to a water pump to pump water from the wellto a water tower, or hook your exercise bike up to the washing machine to provide the power to turn it and wash those clothes, it is too much like work. Lets face it, exercise is too much like work already. If you make it accomplish something besides health and physical
fitness, it is work. That's one way of looking at it. On the other hand,work has to be done, if you build exercise machines thataccomplish the work in a way that maximizes personal fitness,you are getting two hours work for every hour that you do.You get one hours worth of work in necessary tasksaccomplished around the house and you get one hours worth ofwork in personal health and fitness. Some people might evenfind exercise easier to do if they can see a tangiblephysical goal accomplished by it, other than personal
tiredness and sore muscles that is. Lets say that a good jackleg mechanic connected thetumbler on a washing machine to the belt of an exercisebicycle. The operator loads the clothes, hops on thebicycle, wearing a walkman, or watching TV while pedaling.Pedals for the wash cycle, stops and rests or does somethingelse during the rinse, and pedals again for the spin dry.The operator is not just exercising to slim those hips andtighten that butt, the operator also gets the clothes done.Twice as much accomplished for the same amount of work. Theoperator also saves on the electrical bill, because noelectricity was used to turn the clothes in the machine.That is three rewards for the same amount of work now donejust as exercise. Of course if some guy tried building asystem like this for his wife, he probably wouldn't be
married much longer. Creating machines which make healthy exercise accomplish necessary tasks might build a healtheir and more natural lifestyle for people throughout the country and the world. People were meant to work, their bodies need to work to remain healthy. They probably emotionally on a subconscious level need to see immediate tangible results from their work
to feel good about it. Exercise bikes lend themselves to use as mobile powersources. Just take the bike where the work needs to be done,hook it up and hop on. Quit when the task is accomplished.Other exercise machines lend themselves easily to power
generation and storage. Treadmills are a bit heavy to move around, but they can easily be hooked up to a generator to make electrical power. The modern resistance machines are generally hydraulically or pneumatically resistive to motion. If you were to hook them up to an air pressure storage tank, each stroke could pump air into the tank to build up pressure that could be used to run pneumatic tools later on. The return stroke could draw air in for the next pump to the storage. Resistance could be adjusted as it is now by knobs that change the size of hole you are pumping through. Again, a good jackleg mechanic could probably hook several modern exercise machines up to such a system with relatively modest
modifications. We have talked about direct use of energy generated byhuman activity. There are other possibilities. Hooking anelectrical generator up to any machine that is in use,sending the power to a main line which takes energy fromother sources and either stores it in some power storagesystem or sells excess electrical power to the powercompanies. This is more complicated than it sounds.Electrical power comes in different types, ac or dc,different frequencies, 115 400 cycle, etc. Your input powerwould range a lot depending on the source, and have to beconverted to a standard used by the system as a whole,or thestandard used by the power companies. These questions havebeen to some degree solved by wind power generation which varies with wind speed, etc. Even if these problems are easilysolved, harnessing all the small activities in a home thatcould be harnessed to generate electricity might be done inone of two ways or a combination of two ways. First to havea generator for each activity, or second to have a portablegenerator which would be moved from activity to activity asneeded. Hook it up to the drive shaft from the fireplacedraft, hook it up to the exercise bicycle or the treadmillwhichever is in use. Move it about as necessary to harnessthe maximum energy possible. The other method would be tohave a generator at each possible energy source. This would
be more convenient and more expensive. Pumps however are relatively simple pieces of equipmentcompared to electrical generators. A pump which pumped airinto a prssurized air system every time a door was opened andclosed. Every time an exercise machine cycled, or everyrevolution of a treadmill turnwheel might be less expensivethan a fairly sophisticated electrical generator. Work couldbe harnessed and stored for future use, either directpneumatic tool use, or by using the pressureized air to pumpwater, or turn an electrical generator to make electrical
power. Systems such as these could lead to some interestingdomestic situations. A wife who wants hubby to fix this orbuild that in his workshop might follow her exercise regimenreligiously for a week and then corner him saying "I storedup 40 hours of work as high pressure air for your workshop.Now this is what I want you do to with it. I've done thework, all you have to do is move the tools around." OR "Dad,you know I've been training all winter for the spring trackmeets pretty hard, and I've kept track of the kw hours I'vegenerated. You owe me fifty dollars for electrical power
I've made, pay up." Such systems are not going to produce thousands ofdollars, and the installation price would have to bereasonable to make them a worthwhile investment, depending ofcourse on energy costs and availability, they become morefeasible the farther from the city you get. On the otherhand. Where exercise machines see constant use, ten, twelveor twentyfour hours a day, in professional gyms and spas,such machines would be generating power an equal period oftime. Such an input might run from a sizable fraction ofpower needed to an actual gain over power needed which excesscould be sold to the power company. A line of such machinesmight be successfully marketed to major fitness businesses tocut down on operating expenses. Once developed and marketedthere, people who would otherwise buy fitness machines fortheir homes might very well choose a power making machineover a power wasting machine. This is not an idea withoutvalue. Since people who buy such machines for their homestend to be professional athletes, their use would probably behigh, and such a machine would almost certainly be a better
investment than one that produced no output.


ENERGY STORAGE: The optimum energy storage system is ahydrogen storage system. Split water into hydrogen andoxygen. Store the hydrogen and oxygen and combust themtogether to produce water and heat energy. Oxygen is a neatby product of this, allowing you to bleed additional oxygeninto your atmosphere for the ultimate natural high. Hydrogencan be used like natural gas for heating and cooking if itshould become necessary to do so. Cooking is especially goodfor this. Gas stoves are better for cooking on than justabout anything else. In addition, this is a nonpollutingenergy source. The byproduct of burning hydrogen is water.Chemically pure water. Using kinetic energy from a windmillto generate electricity and storing the excess in this manneris probably an optimum solution to this problem, dependingupon the expense reliability and capacity of wind generatedelectrical power in East Texas. Additional electrical energycould be generated hydroellectrically assuming that thestream on my land is an all year stream, and from such
mechanical devices as the flywheel in the fireplace chimney. On the other hand, storing kinetic energy as gas underpressure has a number of advantages. High pressure air canbe used for a number of things. It can run tools, operatesprayers for paint or sludge or whatever. It could be usedfor dart guns, and even as an air conditioning system sincethe air would fall to ambient temperature while underpressure and cool as it expands. A high pressure air tankmight be very useful, coupled with pipes to carry the air to
work stations around the house.


ENERGY USE: The theoretically most effective way to use energy is to use kinetic energy for physical tasks heat energy for heating, and electrical energy for electrical tasks. The reason for this is that there is a loss of efficiency every time you convert one form of energy to another form of energy. If you have never thought about energy use this way, then you should. Washing clothes, grinding grain, shredding waste for compost, pumping water, sawing wood, are all physical energy or kinetic energy tasks thus they should be combined at a work station with a kinetic energy power source. A wind or water mill for example. Even a bicycle hooked up to a machine that converts that force to practical use if you want to combine exercise with utility. Heating the home, the water, cooking, are all heat energy tasks, and should be arranged to take maximum advantage of a power sourse that produces heat. Solar heat, wood heat, natural gas, hydrogen, etc. Converting electrical energy to heat energy to accomplish these things is one of the most expensive things that we do in our modern homes. Television, stereos, home computing, telephones, radio, etc. are all electrical energy tasks, and can ony be done with an electrical energy source. In theory, work station design and home design should take these things into consideration. In practice however, we tend to one energy source for all our needs, converting it as necessary. There are good reasons for this. A windmill with a height of 50 meters to get good wind power has to get that energy from the top to the bottom in order to get work down below accomplished. This calls for either a mechanical linkage which can be expensice, and more complicated and tricky the more jobs you try to get that windmill to do. In the end, changing that power to electrical power at the top, sending it down a cable to a lot of machines which all run off electrical power may be the simplest and most effective method of using that energy. There are tradeoffs here, that have to be made. If you do convert it to electrical energy then you have to convert it again to some other form of energy to store it. Batteries store it as chemical potential energy, lakes, water towers, high pressure air tanks store it as potential kinetic energy, flywheels store it as kinetic energy. Hydrogen oxygen tanks would store it as both chemical energy, kinetic energy, the gas would be under pressure, and potential heat energy, you can burn the hydrogen gas to cook off of. This flexibility is one of the main reasons that I like this kind of storage. On the other
hand, hydrogen gas is dangerous.


EVOLUTION: Evolution when stated properly is a tautology that is a statement that is true by definition. Simply put, evolution states that "Those things best suited to survive will tend to survive best". Add the codicil, "Given a method of passing survival traits to descendants, these traits will tend to accumulate and eventually change the descendants to be better survivors", and you have a fairly complete description of all the logical basis behind the theory of evolution. Strangely some people consider tautologies to be an inferior form of logical argument. I say strangely, because every mathematical axiom is true by definition. Mathematical proofs are produced by manipulating basic definitions of mathematical terms and relationships to prove that the statement being proved is true and inevitable by these definitions. True by definition. So all mathematical reasoning is tautological reasoning. Similarly, a good tautology like a good mathematical formula is a very flexible thing, and can be used to describe and predict behavior in any system where it applies. Like a formula, it doesn't make sense if used in a situation where it does not apply. One does not use the formuly pi r square to cook, or to calculate the area of a rectangle. Evolution naturally does not apply completely in situations where no method of passing traits along exists, though half of it does. Nor does it apply in static situations, or situations where all factors are uniform for purposes of calculation (no fittest where everythings the same). Given these limitations it applys to the study of all dynamic situations, and especially to the study of human behavior and culture. Used wisely it can be extremely useful. Remember, evolution, morality, and quality judgements about higher states of being have only chance
relationships with one another.


EVOLUTION ENVELOPES: Basically, there is a lower level to the ability of any organism in a given environment below which, that organism cannot survive and produce children. This minimum or survival level is the level of ability which all varieties of that organism will tend to achieve. Members of the species or variety with ability markedly above this level will not have a noticably superior rate over those with just the minimum level, since both will survive and produce offspring. Thus, unless somthing happens to make the environments selective pressures more severe, no improvement in species will tend to take place. Instead there will be a gradual evening of ability throughout the variety or species within its breeding group. Where all members have the minimum level of ability needed to survive and produce offspring but few excel. This in conjunction with the concept Survival of the Sexiest explains why women with really great faces and really great bodies are rare, but women with good faces or bodies are common. In order to reproduce, women only have to be sexy enough to get laid. A good body or nice face is sufficient. Breathtaking beauty does not significantly increase the chance of having offspring. Thus beauty and sexiness is maintained at roughly the minimum level necessary to get laid. In cultures where alcohol is widely consumed, this
level can be really low.


EVOLUTION, INTUITIVE: Most people are not aware that therewas a major scholastic war over Darwinian and Lamarckianevolution, with Darwins school winning because of thediscovery of genetics. Darwin held with the accumulation ofchance improvement s over time. Lamarck proposed theheretibility of acquired characteristics. Furthermore, hewas able to produce evidence of this phenomenon. Somethingto do with frogs as I recall. Darwin was looking weakbecause of the question of how traits were passed on. Ifthey were half as strong in the descendant than the parent,like for example skin color in a mixed marriage, then theywould become too weak to have an effect long before enoughminor changes had accumulated to produce a new species. Genetics showed that changes would not dilute themselvesbelow a certain level of what was carried on individualgenes. Darwin won out because it was not possible to showhow acquired traits as opposed to genetic changes could be
passed from one generation to the next. Taking the principles of similarity and conversion intoaccount, it is possible to propose a method for passing alongof acquired traits. Once one understands these principles,the magical/spiritual side of sex assumes a physical reality,operating at a subatomic level. The forces at work aregenerated by the two individuals involved, the resultingpattern of force is a summation of their spiritual beings,and will act to select the genetic combinations that succeedin producing offspring on the basis of that pattern.Acquired characteristics are a part of this pattern of forceand will exert a selective pressure both in choosing from thegenetic variations available to pass itself along and inproducing minor mutations that will increase or maintain such
characteristics. The two people are also in spiritual contact with therest of the universe and the entire universe has an effectupon the sum of this equation. Because tachyons travelthrough time, even the future exerts a pressure upon thepresent exerting an influence upon the nature of children tobe born. Plants evolution might be expected to change toproducing varieties that would be widely propagated by man ifman were to become a major vector for their varietal and
species survival. Consider Luther Burbank. This process of evolution as an integral part of theentire universe is intuitive evolution, and it does much toexplain the many wonderful adaptations and varieties of lifethat our world has produced. You see during the process ofreproduction , a species basically thinks and chooses itsoffspring in an intuitive fashion, frequently with real
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FIGHTING AREA: To be outside the activities area, see also
yards.


FIREPLACE design should incorporate an external source forair to be drawn into the fire. So cold air is not drawn intohouse to replace air exhausted from fireplace. Fireplaceshould be designed and placed to provide radiant heat. Inaddition, pipes should be embedded in body of fireplace toallow circulation of air to gather heat from fire and beexhausted back into the house. An interesting design concepthere is to place the inlet and exhaust flues for thefireplace parallel to one another in the chimney, each havinga screw attached to a drive shaft, the screws being set insuch a manner that the hot air leaving and the cold airentering both cause the drive shaft to rotate in the samedirection. This in turn drives a fan that sucks air from thehouse through heating pipes in the fireplace body andexhausts the heated air to the house. The natural place forsuch a fireplace is in the kitchen area, where it can servedual purpose providing a cooking area. Since the designincorporates the master bedroom below the kitchen this isconvenient to heat the MBDR as well. The air intake shouldbe from the bilge area, providing air circulation therehelping to prevent condensation, mold buildup and otherpossible problems caused by dampness and humidity. Hot airexhausted could be sent by ventilating ducts to different
parts of the house.
FLAG: The flag being a symbol of our nation symbolizesdifferent things to different people. To people who see ourcountry primarily in terms of its faults and failings, it isa symbol of those faults and failings. Others see it as asymbol of the best of our country, and even of the finestdreams of what our nation could be. Soldiers generally fallinto the second group, the flag is a symbol of what they arefighting for. It represents the best of our country, itsvirtues, and its people. An argument could be made that thisis the truest meaning of our flag. For the flag originatesin its use and the traditions of its display as a militarysymbol, and signaling device. Thus, it is first and formostdefined by the soldiers who bear it. As such, it should beproperly seen not as a symbol of our nations faults, but as asimbol of all those things in our nation that our soldiers
are prepared to fight and to die for. A flag however, being the symbol of our country which isdisplayed and saluted in our military institutions becomesthe symbol for all the reasons that our servicemen havesuffered and died for throughout the history of our country.To the fami lies who have lost sons, and fathers, brothersand sisters in the service of our country, our flag becomesthe symbol of that sacrifice. An insult to the flag is aninsult to those sacred dead. Here lies the essentialemotional meaning of the flag. Certain actions aretraditionally considered obscene, among these isgraverobbing, or desecrations of the graves of the dead. Aninsult to the flag is a kindred offense. Its emotionalimpact comes from the attack that such an insult is to thememory of friends and loved ones who died for what the flagrepresents. As such, I believe that the flag could belegally protected under local obscenity ordinances from
insult and desecration. More than this, the flag, as a symbol of those who havedied in the service of our country, is an important symbol ofthe rights of our fellow citizens regardless of race, creed,or color. Blood is always red. We say the the tree offreedom must be fertilized with the blood of the brave. Menof all creeds and colors have served our nation loyally andwell throughout our history. You cannot ignore the sacrificeof blacks while praising the sacrifice of whites. All thosewho have died in the service of our country are in a veryreal way brothers in blood. Blood that was shed to a commonpurpose. An insult to one is an insult to them all. To denya soldiers people their rights, is an insult to the soldierswho died in defense of those rights. Any discriminatedagainst minority in our country can simply point to the flag.'Look at our flag. See those red stripes. That red is thecolor of the blood of my people who died for this country.My people have purchesed their rights with the blood ofheroes. Nothing you could ever say could be as important as
that. So shut up and move out.'


FOOD STORAGE: The majority of fresh vegetables and fruits arebest stored in a cool slightly moist area. A basement is agood place, or a root cellar if you have one. In anunderground house it would be possible to build such an areaas an additional room, the proper place to put it would be asclose to the kitchen as you could get. In the tube houseidea, it would necessitate departing from the original designto the extent of adding such an additional room north of thetube at the point where the kitchen was located. Inaddition, this storage room should have a well dug within it.This would serve two purposes. First a safe protected watersource, and second it would serve to maintain a highhumidity, a critical consideration in the long term storage
of most fresh fruits and vegetables. Dried foods could be stored in another room not exposedto this humidity but built also underground near the kitchen.In addition, I want one of those vacuom food storers whichallow you to pump a vacuom around foods in plastic bags orcanning jars. I expect that pumping a vacuom into a jar fullof dried fruit would serve to effectively extend its storagelife, possibly indefinitely. It might also help in thepreservation of honey. Another necessity is a freezer for
the storage of meat and some fresh vegetables.


FREEDOM: The very rich and the very poor have a freedom incommon that is ignored or refused by the middle classes. Thevery rich and the very poor are both free to do theunorthodox, while the middle classes, bound as they are bytheir place in a group are not. The very rich are free,bacause they are rich enough to be careless of the opinionsof others. The very poor are free because they will enjoythe negative opinions of others regardless of what they do.A poor man might use a new or unique way of heating orcooling his house because he could rig it up from materialsthat he could get cheaply or for free. A rich man might dothe same because he thought the idea was neat and he wantedto indulge himself. Both might end up with a useful andworthwhile product. The poor man's costing tens of dollarsand the rich mans costing tens of thousands of dollars. Whilethe middle class man or woman seeing the poor mans rig wouldlaugh and ridicule it, while dying of envy at the rich mansengineered experiment in novel architectural design. Bothdesigns might very well be based on the same principles andengineered with equal efficiency. This would not change thecommon (middle class) reaction to it. Such reactions havetheir roots in perceived social standing, and it is theobedience to such reactions which makes the middle classesless free than the very upper and lower classes.Unfortunately such freedom of this nature as the poor possessis the result of need and desperation, and it is frequentlymenaced or destroyed by municipal regulations and thecomplaints of the more well to do. The poor man's answer tothis is to ignore the law, the rich man's to buy the law. So
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GARBAGE: People who recycle look at garbage in a distinctlydifferent way than people who do not recycle. To a dedicatedrecycler, all garbage shows promise, and any piece of garbagewhich cannot be properly used or sent to someplace where itwill be reshaped for use is somehow a real loss. There is aprofound feeling about this. A disappointment. Somehow, asense of personal failure because it was not possible to keepthat single item in the cycle of use and reuse. On the otherhand, people who do not recycle see garbage in an extremelyemotional way. Garbage is bad. It is meant to be thrownaway. People who dig through garbage finding new uses for itare either sick or too weak to do any better. People who
have to reuse garbage a real losers. A good example of this dichotomy is the two or threeliter plastic coke bottle. The three liter bottles areperfect for storing spaghetti in. They are long enough andthe mouth is wide enough to allow storing long spaghettiwithout breaking it, and allow for easily dispensing it forcooking. The seal is air tight, and protects the pastabetter than a box and better than most commercial spaghetticontainers from both bugs and humidity. Many other forms ofpasta are stored ideally in two or three liter plastic cokebottles. Virtually all beans and other dried legumes areeasily and effectively stored this way and give a kitchen apleasant country flavor with their different colors andtextures. The bottles make excellent canteens and waterbottles for the camper who needs a good supply of water andcan easily be made attractive with a simple cloth cover. Cutin half they provide both a bucket and a funnel for variousjobs, especially where the tool will not be used for otherwork. They also provide effective portable green houses forthe protection of tender small plants from frost. Cut offthe bottom and place the top around the plant. Voila. Forthe home brewer they provide a readily available, carbonationproof container for his beer or sparkling wines. Few common
items have more virtues and uses than this piece of garbage. Why then is it judged and condemned as garbage. Onlybecause it is empty. Other containers are kept after theyare empty. Not because they have greater virtue than thehumble plastic bottle, only because they are designed to beornamental after they are emptied. Many of these indeed haveno further use other than to occupy space and collect dustafter they are emptied. Consider the irony. That which ispretty and useless is kept while that which is plain anduseful is thrown away. Not because of any virtue, butbecause some arbitrary and clearly biased authority, (in this
case the manufacturer) said so. This will probably sound silly, but I cannot help but seea paralel here between recyclers and Christians andnonrecyclers, and people who well might not be veryChristian, no matter how much they go to church. For therecycler, anything wasted seems somehow a personal failure.For Christ any human being who is not saved must seem also adisappointment. The recycler is always seeking uses forthings which have been rejected by others. Our bible tellsus that 'the stone rejected will be the cornerstone of thebuilding'. The recycler is eager to save everything hetouches. Christ died to save mankind who were and are
unworthy on their own merits of salvation. People who do not recycle on the other hand seem eager to judge and condemn objects as garbage. Satan which means either the angry one or the accuser always seems to rejoice in the condemnation of human beings. People who do not recycle judge, condemn and reject things not on the basis of their own evaluation, but because they have been raised to
see garbage as garbage. To judge it by its appearance. I admit, garbage is garbage and people are people, but Icannot help but feel that the attitude that one takes in onesday to day life in one thing is either a reflection of orwill effect the attitude that one takes to another thing. Icannot help but feel that people who seek to see the virtuein garbage will be more likely therefore to see the virtue(that little bit of God) that must exist in any creaturecreated in God's image. I cannot help but feel that peoplewho casually cast most of the things they use into thegarbage heap when they are through with them, probably letthis attitude color the way the see people. I cannot helpbut feel that recyclers spend much of their lives in aChristian attitude towards the world, while people who do otrecycle spend less of their time thinking like Christ. It is
just a feeling that I have.


GARBAGE BAG HOLDER: Use dowels and plywood to build acircular flip top cage for holding plastic garbage bags.Pivot points at the base (c), about six inches from the topof the frame (b), and at the rear of the lid (a). You stepon a small ledge at the base, it pivots, the rear top of theframe lifts up, the lid pivots up levered by its attachmentto the top. The six inch lever runs from point a to b.Stain the wood any way that you want to make it look classy.Possibly make the lid from cut pieces of differently colored
woods to have a design. Maybe a monster that eats garbage.


GARDENS: See also landscaping, trees, orchards, ground cover,
hedges, foundation plants, borders, shrubs.


GARDENS1: The three feet in front of the south face will be agarden. By the windows vine crops in the summer. Otherwise,perennial crops, and herbs primarily. Day lilies of differentvarieties are ideal here because they are both edible anddecorative. The buds and flowers being a common chinesevegetable. Garlic, onions, herbs. All that neat stuff.
Asparagus.


GARDENS2: My gardens are going to be in 5 foot by 20 foot beds oriented east to west. Laid out in beds with walkways between them. This allows for growing arches from one bed to the next over the north south pathways. Such arches providing a place for vining plants to grow without stealing sun from other parts of the garden, while providing a decorative and pleasant touch to a garden hopefully combining utility and beauty. Assuming I want 4000 square foot of garden, this calls for 40 such beds. Assuming a hundred foot front, this would make an 4 by 10 layout appropriate. Leaving 20 foot for paths or approximately 5 foot wide paths. Much of this area would be idle every year, or planted to non-food plants. It would stretch 100 feet from my house. With arbored paths between the rows. In such a layout I am actually using more ground for path than for garden. This requires inspiration. I will come back to it. Even with perpetual mulch, this could run into some work. Make the east west paths only 2 feet or so long. Also have about four gardens scattered in the maze orchard. This allows for isolating different varieties of vegetables so that seed may be saved without accidental hybridization between varieties. Forty beds would then take up less space because of the less space between the beds, and they could be divided into groups of ten beds apiece. I could then work on one small garden and surrounding orchard area per day. The problem here would lie in protecting the garden from wildlife. Not as important in the orchard as in the garden. It would be advisable to know the direction of prevailing winds so that the gardens could be arranged to not be windward of one another. This would cut down on the
chances of accidental cross pollination.


GARDENS3: I want to combine beauty with utility in mygardens. This includes my orchard which will be laid out asan ornamental maze. Small fruiting bushes, dwarf fruittrees, and other appropriate hedge plants laid out byflowering and fruiting s eason, with larger trees growing insmall open areas in the maze. The emphasis being onproducing fruit, nuts and flowers for my own pleasure ratherthan for commercial purposes. Fruits of different varietiesbeing selected to extend the fruiting season to the maximumpossible with a main crop time around the best varieties forstorage which will naturally be planted in greater numbers.An acre or so devoted to such a maze orchard with my home and
gardens in the center of it would be ideal. Full sized trees would be chestnut, pecans, walnuts, monkeypuzzle trees, planted in pairs to provide for pollination andgreater variety, again with the emphasis being on varietyrather than maximum yield from the land. Hedge trees wouldbe various dwarf fruits planted in hedges with aromatic andherbal bushes such as tea, juniper, linden, hyssop, hibiscus,elder, cloves, cinnamon, capers, bilberry, bearberry,rosemary, sage, winter savory, star-anise(chinese variety),thyme, sweet bay, sassafras, lavender, myrtle and rose. Themany different aromas would serve to confuse the insectswhich would prey on a monocultural planting of fruit trees.Care must be taken with such plants as sassafras which easilyruns wild actually since you use the roots of sassafras, itsconstant suckering provides you with the source of yourharvest so the labor spent in keeping the planting controlledis repaied with sassafras tea. In addition, guinea fowlwould be run free through the orchard to eat the bugs whichmight appear and provide a sourec of meat. To complete thescenario, the maze orchard floor would be planted withmarigolds, nasturtiums, garlic and other appropriate herbs toadd to the aroma of my home and provide succulent and spic yjoys to the idle poet and philosopher who tarries there. Notfor me a bare earthed orchard stirpped and poisoned to feed a
few solitary and miserable trees. I am not a commercial man.
GEESE: Famous for their watchdog function, geese are more self sufficient than chickens. The smaller geese such as chinese can be quite docile while the larger ones such as african geese can be vicious and dangerous to children. The real love that authors have shown when discussing white chinese geese have almost convinced me that I have to have some. A poor mans swans, they are reputed to be able to tell the difference between weeds and garden plants, except for corn which they think is a weed, and dandelions which
chinese grow as a vegetable. Cmon, how can they know.


GENOCIDE AFRICAN: Mother Nature appears to be about tounleash a can of whoop ass onthe human race such as has notbeen seen for thousands of years. Several of her main gunsseem to be trained on Africa. AIDS is endemic there,millions seem to be infected. Men are raised believing thatthey will die if they do not have sex when they need it.This attitude does nothing to help control a sexuallytransmitted disease. Skin cancer is on the rise throughoutthe world due to the hole in the ozone. Africa will suffergreatly from this because of her place in the sun. Mankindseffect on the world will produce climate fluctuations untilman and nature reach a compromise. Those fluctuations willmean crop failures and famine. Africa is extremelyvulnerable to such things. Altogether, the population ofAfrica may be halved or decimated even further by the end ofthe 21st century. By itself, such things might notextinguish the African peoples. However, they do imperilthem. Africans will need the help of the rest of the worldmore in the next century than ever before i the history ofthe world. One danger to their receiving this help is thepossibility of a race war in the US. Such a war would underany conceivable circumstances cripple or destroy the chancesof Africa's receiving the help that it needs. No matter whowon, the war would cripple America's economy and industry foryears. A crippled nation cannot offer the help to anothernation that a healthy nation can. The probability however isthat light skinned people would win such a war. In thatcase, a racial backlash is possible. It is even conceivable,though unlikely that in such a political climate a movementto complete what Nature (God) started might gain power andresult in an effort to eomplete the extermination of theAfrican. Although such a worst case scenario is extremelyunlikely depending as it does on the idea that someone wouldbe stupid enough to start a race war and on the unlikelypossiblity that the war would be tough enough to excite thatkind of bitter animosity on the part of the victor, thelookout for Africa is still bleak in the next century. Evenwith all the help the rest of the world can give, the loss of
some human genotypes there is almost assured.


GENOCIDE ULFHEDNAR: One of the ancient genotypes to passalmost entirely out of existence in this century is that ofthe Ulfhednar. This genocide is aided and abetted by thefact that mankind does not recognize the existence of theUlfhednar as a valid genetic type, and it is not politicallycorrect to speculate on the existence of types such asulfhednar. See genotype behavioral. The term ulfhednar ishere used to describe a person who has inherited the frenzyof wodin, and the holmgang. He is further distinguished fromthe bersarkir by physical build. The ulfhednar being talland slim, the bersarker being large and heavy. The namesderive from the Eddas and mean respectively wolf coat andbearshirt. The ulfhednar was considered to turn into a wolfin battle, the bersarkir to become a bear. Thus thedistinction between the two on the basis of physical build.Other differences between the two are hair color. Theulfhednar properly had dark brown hair, and blue eyes, thebersarkir red hair and blue eyes. One was basically in theimage of wodin, the other the image of thor. These two norsegods being dentifiable as archetypes of these two warriortypes may be considered as describing the pure type. Bothtypes of warrior could have been expected to occur withdifferent color eyes and hair depending upon ancestryassuming that the frenzy of wodin and the holmgang were
inherited. According to the norse sagas, the bersarkergang wasdefinitely known to occur in the same families generationafter generation. This is hereditary. What was theholmgang. Well basically it translates as homewar. It was alaw that allowed a barsarker to wander around, challenge thealpha male of a given homestead, and if he defeated the alphamale in battle to take over the homestead. It survived upuntil this millenium in Iceland. One of the last strongholdsof the old viking genotypes. This law, is a reflection ofthe nature of the persons alive when such a law wasnecessary. It is an example of behavioral genotypes shapingsociety, instead of people being shaped by society. Studyingthe old norse legends it is possible to see how thispopulation of born killers impacted every aspect of theirlives. Among the indoeuropean group, the norse are notablein that Wodin the god of wisdom is the all father, while thorthe thunderer is relegated to a relatively minor position,while he dominates the religion of other indoeuropean
peoples. COnsider this in context with a large population ofbarsarkers. Thor, Zeus, or Jupiter dominates by his power.Awe of his preeminent position and his strength and thunderpowers. Let us consider this in application by a triballeader having to deal with a large population of bersarks.He attempts to frighten bersark #1 into obedience, bersark #1loses it. If the leader survives, he is probably hurt. Nextday or week he tries again, another bersark loses it. By thetime he tryes to awe 3 bersarks into obedience, the tribeprobably needs a new leader. This kind of a problem callsfor a more intellectual approach to leadership. Wodin,called the wise one enters the picture. An all father who isthe first of the gods because he is smarter than the others.This may be unique in human culture. More than that, inorder to command the respect of this population of bornkillers, Wodin was just as big a killer as they were. Thefrenzy of Wodin, the berserkergang was his gift to those he
favored.


GENOTYPE BEHAVIORAL: It is of course not politically correctto speculate on the existence of behavioral genotypes. Theidea that behavior, intelligence or emotional stability couldbe hereditary is not an acceptable thesis in modern academia.There is good reason for this. Such ideas were used tojustify racism, hereditary aristocracy, and similar things inthe past. Therefore, any scientist who produces a study thatsuggests that qualities such a criminal behavior, alcoholism,intelligence, or insanity may be hereditary is branded as a
racist, neonazi fascist pig. End of Research. Unfortunately, it is not really possible to conceive of how such qualities could fail to be hereditary to some degree. There is no question that the chemistry of a brain effects its output, there is no question that chemistry of human beings is genetic in origin. Ergo, to some degree, the output of that brain has to be heriditary. Of course, mankind is a very adaptable crature, and there can be no question that a lot of it is produced by the environment. Therefore, the question of whether nature or nurture determines your nature is bound to have an answer somewhere in the middle. Sometimes nature, sometimes nurture. Finally, since mankind has a certain amount of variability, that is not everyone is the same. For some people it will be more nature than nurture and for others more nurture than nature. Mankind seems to be evolving more towards adaptability than to a preset reaction to stimuli. This means that mankind seems to select for nurture over nature. That those genotypes with behavioral patterns largely predetermined by genetics are at a disadvantage in reproducing their own kind. See SCHIZOTYPAL SKINNER BOX. This process is producing a loss of human genotypes. This is a natural process, and whether it is good or bad I suppose depends on whether your genotype is marked for extermination or not. Since it is not politically correct to speculate or suggest that behavioral genotypes might exist. It is impossible to do anything to prevent their extermination. It is ironic that being properly liberal and politically correct is contributing to this genotype loss, or natural genocide if you prefer. Of course, if the process is recognized it will be possible to rationalize it by saying that such genotypes were naturally undesirable (inferior) to the rest of mankind and thus their extermination was justified. Such an argument will make
minorities the world over rest in peace, I am sure. One side effect of the loss of the behavioral genotypeswill be to have a population whose attitudes are almostenirely moldable to societies standards. Society will nothave to make special laws for various human types. Such amalleable species will be stabler, more docile and easily
controlled.


GORBACHEV: There is a peculiar paralel between Mr. Gorbachevand another famous world leader. Both preside over a unionof disparate states. Both have seen that union threatened.Both have used force to preserve that union, and both havebeen vigorously condemend by the press for that use of force.Opinion being in both cases that there was no legaljustification for that use of force. In addition to theseparalels, there is a peculiar paralel between the ages oftheir two nations. The USSR was the result of the Communistrevolution which occurred during WWI. WWI was around 1917.This makes the USSR eighty something years old. The otherworld leader made a speech which began 'Four score and sevenyears ago'. The other leader was obviously Mr. Lincoln andhis country the USA. It was this peculiar paralel that bothour countries went through a period of civil unrest andmovements to secede from the union that first spurred acomparison of the two leaders. Upon consideration, I find
the comparison both compelling and frightening. Compelling because of the many paralels between the twomen. Lincoln freed the slaves during his war. Gorbachevfreed his slave states before the separatist movement began.Neither had a legal right to maintain their union. Bothinsisted on doing so anyway. Both were excoriated by thepress for their actions. Few presidents in history havetaken so much abuse from the press as Mr. Lincoln, during hisadministration. Likewise Mr. Gorbachev's use of force tohold certain of his states in line has excited the
international press to calling him bully and thug. Frightening because of the consequences of Mr.Gorbachev's failure both for his country and for the world.There are few Americans today who would not agree thatAmerica, both north and South is better off because itremained a Union, regardless of the legality of using forceto make it do so. We derive a multitude of benefits. Freecommerce between the states, a vast and varied group ofnatural resources, different strengths at different timesfrom different parts of the country. On the other hand if wehad been separated, then we would have borders and taxes, amultitude of little armies, one for each state. Each statewould have its own import and export laws, its own currency.It is likely that hardly a year would pass when there was not
a war over some petty dispute between one of the states. This is the situation that will face the citizens of theSoviet Union should it collapse. Already the member stateshave begun fighting their own little wars. Reviving oldethnic, racial, and national hatreds that lay dormant uniderthe rule o f the USSR. Their lives far from being improvedby independence will be ruined by it. Their children willthank them if they maintain a union rather than becoming achaos of minor nations. The rest of the world may look onand say well and good, the dath of a tyrant. I see thefragmentation of one of the major military powers of theworld with some apprehension. Portions of that power will beleft in the different fragments. Some may even retain somenuclear capability. The world does not need two or threenations fighting over centuries old boundary disputes withnuclear capability. The world and all the peoples of theUSSR will be better off if Mr. Gorbachev succeeds in
maintaining the Union. If I were Mr. Gorbachev, I would take a couple of pages from Mr. Lincoln's book. I would hang the saying on my office wall that Mr. Lincoln had on his. "This is my shop" etc. I would maintain both the freedom of the press and my own course of action. I would stubbornly refuse to allow the dissolution of my nation, knowing that the future of all the peoples of that nation depended upon its union. I would also begin airing american cival war specials on Soviet television, and point up the paralels between the history of
these two great nations.
GROUND COVERS: A plant used to cover ground other than lawngrass. Normally they cannot be walked on, but some can.They are planted under trees, in pathways and in areas of theyard not devoted to gardening, but not normally used fortraffic. My primary interest here is in ground covers toplant in and among the paving of my garden paths. Somepossible plants are creeping chamomile (anthemis nobilis), afragrant low growing herb used for lawns different from theannual chamomile used for cham omile tea. Corsican Mint.
Creeping Thyme (T. praecox arcticus).


GUILTY BY LACK OF ASSOCIATION: In most cases any group ofpeople presented with a problem where one of their members isprobably guilty of some crime, the person who will be foundguilty in the opinions of that group is the most poorlysocialized member of the group. This is why child molesters,serial killers, members of the KKK, and other criminals getaway with it a lot of the time. The group judges therelative guilt of an individual not on the basis ofevidence, but on the basis of how much pain his loss willcause the group. Everybody hopes that the guilty party isnot someone they care about. Thus, the person on the bottomof the pecking order is frequently found guilty, not byevidence, but by lack of association. This is why dueprocess is so important in maintaing a just legal system. It
guarantees that the evidence will be looked at.


GUILTY OF HAVING A BRAIN: People have a way of testing eachother to see what they are really about. Fred goes in to geta job at a store. The manager decides to check him out."Fred," he says, "If you wanted to rob the store, how wouldyou do it ?" Fred being a normal guy answers, "Gee, Mr.Dipple, I don't know." However, if Fred had a high IQ, hisanswer might go like this. "Well Sir, I noticed that theangle on your observation mirrors left a blind spot in thehardware aisle. So, a shoplifter could load up there. Somepretty high priced items there to. An old scam is to havesomeone at the checkout register who rings his friends outfast by ringing only a couple of items. I didn't see anyprecautions against that." Fred stops to get his breath andMr. Dipple breaks in, "That's all right, son, but the storereally doesn't have any openings right now. We'll get intouch if something comes up." Mr. Dipple had been listeningwith growing apprehension. No honest man would notice thosethings. This kid had to have been casing his store. ThankGod, he had spotted the kid and asked him that question.Yeah, Mr. Dipple thought, these kids may be smart, but theycan't outsmart him. Fred leaves confused by the fact that t
he sign saying clerk wanted is still in the window. Then Fred goes over to visit Joe and Charlie, Joe andCharlie are black, but Fred doesn't care, nerds don't have arace, everyone discriminates against them. He's not so hoton Joe, but he thinks Charlie is alright. Before he getsthere, Joe has been teaching Charlie the facts of life. Joeknows that white people think they are smarter than blackpeople,and he knows that this is racism. It follows thatwhite people are not smarter than black people and any whiteperson who acts smarter than him, Joe, is a racist. Now Fredsays a lot of smart things and makes Joe feel stupid. So Joeknows that Fred thinks that he is smarter than Joe, and thatmakes Fred a racist. Charlie is not buying into this. Hethinks that Fred is probably smarter than Joe, he doesn'treally think Joe is all that smart. More than that, Fredtalks to him the same as he does to anyone. That doesn'tseem racist, but like most intelligent people Charlie has anopen mind, so he listens to Joe. Joe says, "Lets test thisguy. I mean, if he really is a racist, he is probably intoall that Nazi stuff. I bet you if you sound him out, youwill find out he really knows about the Nazi's. You know,people really know about what they are into." This is asurprisingly intelligent observation on Joe's part and itimpresses Charlie. So he decides to go along the next time
he sees Fred. Fred comes in, and Charlie says, "I know you are intohistory, man. I was wondering if you could tell us about theThird Reich." Fred thinks about it and digs into his memorybank and dumps what he knows. Charlie is getting more andmore disturbed, when Joe breaks in and asks, "I'll bet youknow some justification for the Germany in WWII." Fred is ona roll, and taps the data bank again going into the brokenagreement at the end of WWI which resulted in ruinousreparations from Germany and a social environment thatallowed Hitler to come to power. All of which is in anyhistory book. This is enough for Charlie. When Fred leaves,he says "Did you hear all that stuff. I mean he must be afucking Neo-Nazi. I bet he has a swastik a in his closet.He even defended the Germans for Christ Sake." To Joe andCharlie German and NAZI are the same word. In fact what Fredhad done was discuss how injustice and inhumanity in thepeace after WWI had led to an unjust and inhumane regimecoming to power. There is a big difference between explaning
the causes of something and in supporting something. Fred meets Carl in the Mall. Carl is kind of racist, but Fred is live and let live. At least Carl talks to him. Which is more than most people. As they are talking a really good looking black girl passes by. Fred follows her with his eyes. Carl looks at him as though he has suddenly seen something filthy. Then Carl starts asking him about black people. Fred discusses the fact that there were a number of sophisticated civilizations in Africa before the coming of the white man, and adds that during the Middle Ages, when the Moors conquered spain, their culture, educaition and civilization was superior to that of the basically barbarous tribes that they conquered. The moors being black as midnight. Carl gets exasperated and storms off saying "If you like them so much why don't you marry
one." Fred has been tested and found guilty of three differentcrimes. Without ever knowing he was on trial. A typical dayin the life of a nerd. All three times the individualsinvolved are convinced that they have discovered the real,the secret Fred. Mr. Dipple called the other store managersand warned them about Fred. Joe and Charlie told the otherbrothers about Fred, and Carl warned all the white boys.Fred might as well move to a new town. This is the story of
my life. To all of the braindead people who believe that ifsomeone knows more about something than you that it is theruling passion of his life. Fuck you very much. Your headis so far up your ass the only way you could see the realworld is if you ha d a plexiglass window installed in yourstomach. It is a fucked up world when having a mind meansthat you are guilty of everything that anyone else imagines.
Most of which you could never imagine yourself.


GUINEA HENS: This semiwild version of poultry comes highlyrecommended. They are alert, territorial, aggressive andnoisy. Thus they make good birds for alerting an owner ofinvaders to his and their territory. They will attack ratsand small snakes thus making them useful for helping protectother poultry. In addition, they are less destructive ofgardens than chickens, and are more meat eaters, acting tovoraciously debug garden areas. I plan on having some in myorchard. Primarily dark meat, they are reputed to be goodeating. Let them run loose in the orchard where they willdevour the bugs that would harm my trees. Probably eat a few
of my honey bees as well.

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HEATING: Some of the surface area covered with solar heat collector instead of earth or windows. Water heated by the sun rises into reservoir tube set parallel to main tube, on upper south slope in earth roof. Provides hot water needs of house. Possibly auxiliary heating system included. One place to put the heating array that is not occupied with growing things or windows used in summer for growing things is on the door. I see an activities room immediately inside the main entrance which has gothic medieval doors. The nature of a heat collector lends itself to looking like celtic knotwork art/calligraphy. With a little creativity, it should be able to make a solar collector that looks like a work of ancient irish art. Such a door could pivot on pipes that enter at the top and leave at the bottom. These pipes could allow hot water to exit at the top and cold water to enter at the bottom. See also windows, cooling, maxwells Demon.

HEDGES: One of the more delightful ideas for a hedge seems to me to be tea bushes. A hedge of tea bushes might supply several pounds of tea a year from the normal trimming necessary to keep a hedge looking good. Texas seems to be a place where a lot of plants will grow but will not bear fruit. My part is in the climae zone for tea, and you don't have to worry about fruit with tea you harvest the leaves. This idea is especially for those places where thorny barrier hedges, or messy fruity hedges are inappropriate. I.E. in those instances where you still entertain hopes of living peacefully with your neighbors. On the other hand, there are thorny hedges with a purpose, for which roses gooseberry, hawthorn, prickly pears, and other plants are available. Pomegranetes could probably be trained into a dense fruity hedge or boundary.

HERBS: I have read a large number of books onherbs and herbalism. Some remarkably more interesting than others. In all this number only two combined a chemical analysis of herbs with a discussion of traditional uses. One of these was devoted to herbs traditionally used in chinese medicine, the other dealt with traditional western herbs. There was a marked difference between these two books. The book on chinese herbs was consistent in its entries suggesting that a fairly large and well researched body of knowledge existed there. The book on western medicine was haphazard with a marked pattern it its high and low levels of knowledge. Plants used commercially in the west were fairly well understood and analyzed chemically. Plants not generally used commercially were question marks, with little or no solid knowledge of their chemical composition or effects. The reasons for this difference are too obvious to comment on. In general, herbalism and the growth ofherbs are fascinating fields for the amateur because so little has been done with them in the thousands of years of their use. In cases were the active or valued principle is well known, such as the mints, their is a great deal of room for selective breeding to produce varieties which produce more flavoring than are now available. I have been told that varieties of marijuana have been grown by selective breeding of this type. It is an interesting irony that this has largely been possible because of the controversial nature of the plant. This controversy has caused the plant to be more carefully analyzed than most herbs. This analysis in turn has allowed the isolation of the active compounds. This has allowed persons to breed varieties which produce enormously higher concentrations of these compounds than occurred in the wild plants. This sort of breeding could be done with any herb whose active principles are known with the result that concentrations in the plants themselves would be as high or higher than is administered in pills. Pills are generally dilute mistures of active agents with binders to produce convenient dosages in convenient forms. This would easily produce plants with as high a concentration of physiologically active compounds as in pills and medications sold by pharmacies. This would make herbalism as dangerous as drug abuse. Indeed, if traditional food plants were measured by the same standards applied to commercial drug products, many of them would be illegal. Herbalism is already dangerous in the hands of amateurs who use excessive amounts of herbs because of their 'natural' nature. In many cases, what is known scientifically concerning the composition of herbs indicates that they would aggravate rather than cure what they are recommended as cures for. It is easy to see how this would occur as a result of the unsanity principle. There is a human tendency to look for something that cures everything, and most herbs seem to have at one time or another been considered to literally cure everything. If it worked on one thing. Use it for another. If the patient recovers, then it works there to. Usually patients recover at least temporarily anyway, so this sort of evidence is pretty totally meaningless unless controlled studies are done.

HYBRID VIGOR: A phenomenon having to do with the basic nature of genetics. Children having genes from both parents, the genes match up in pairs. When one gene of the pair is weaker than the other, its effect is masked by the more vigorous gene. Such a gene is called recessive. When two specimens from the same variety in plants, race in people, are bred together they tend to have the same genes with relatively minor differences. There is relatively little masking going on. The offspring are not noticeably more vigorous than the parents. When two plants from different varieties are bred together, there is greater variation in which genes are weak and which are stronger. Though due to the concept of Evolution Envelopes, the total of strong and weak from parent to parent is basically similar. This increases the chance of a weak gene being masked by a strong gene, producing offspring that are noticeably more vigorous than their parents. This is the principal behind hybrid corns, and since it is a basic principle of genetics it applies equally to people as well as corn. This suggests that the offspring of europeans and africans should display hybrid vigor. In God's great experiment, the USA, who dominates sports? It would be nice if one could see some of our better athletes walking around with T-shirts that read 'How about trying some Hybrid Vigor Baby?' instead of various racial and ethnic motifs. It would both be more scientifically accurate, and provide greater stimulation for the imagination of members of the opposite gender. There is some sort of poetic notion that pure is superior to mixed. There is no basis in nature for this. Steel is stronger than iron. Steel is iron mixed with other elements. Pure bred dogs are very popular, but there is no evidence that they are superior to mixed dogs. They are more predictable, you know exactly what you are getting with a pure breed. This is useful for the master, and I guess it is good to be pure bred if you are going to be somebody's dog. If you are going to be your own person, however. You are as well off to have some variation in your gene pool. Historically, cultures as well as people show hybrid vigor. In addition, the fantasy that black people dominate american athletics feeds racism. It creates resentment on the part of white people and a misplaced pride on the part of black people. The resentment leads white people to say that black people are better athletes because they are more animal than white peopple. This is false, afroamericans seem to dominate athletics not because of their black blood, nor because of their white blood, but because of the hybrid vigor that comes from mixing the two strains. There is nothing wrong with afroamericans being proud of who thay are and what they accomplish, but pride based on lies creates evil. The lie that they dominate sports because of their african blood causes them to be ashamed of their european blood. An american should be able to take pride in hall of his inheritance. He should be able to say, I am an american, I have african blood, and german blood, and I am all american. Because of the mixture I am sometimes stronger and faster than purebloods. Like steel is stronger than pure iron. In order to be at peace with the world, a man needs to be at peace with himself. In order to be at peace with himself, a man has to accept himself. Lies about who he is only hinder this. Afroamericans are no longer genetically very close to their original african ancestors, there has been far too much genetic replacement. They need to realize who they are, and stop hating parts of themselves.

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IGNORANCE: The degree to which modern science is ignorant ofcommon factors in our day to day life would be astonishing topeople at large if they had any idea of how vast the gulfs inour scientific knowledge of day to day matters is. Foodcomposition is one of these areas. Foods which have beeneaten for thousands of years are assumed to be safe, andnonpoisonous. Only those which have been extensivelyanalyzed because of possible chemical byproducts orsynthetics have been extensively analyzed at all. In manycases, our common vegetables have higher concentrations ofpoisonous compounds than we allow as artifical foodadditives. Herbs are another of our vast gulfs of ignorance.Many, herbs which have been in use on the basis of hearsayand tradition have never been analyzed chemically at all.Because of this, they are frequently used by herbalists inmanners that either immediately or over a long period of time
could destroy the health of the patient. The degree to which this assumption that scientistssomewhere know about these things is demonstrated by that oldhorror story about marijuana. 'Did you know that marijuanacontains more than two hundred compounds unknown in any otherplant?' Because of its extremely political nature, probablymore money has been spent analyzing marijuana than any otherplant. So now we know more about it than almost any otherplant on the face of the planet. Chances are that if we wereto spend a similar amount of money on any other plant chosenat random, we would find at least as many unknown compounds.Did you know that virtually every plant that we eat containsnatural poisons that can cause illness or death in all of us.Did you know that tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplants are all
relatives of the deadly nightshade? That is what we know, but if you were to take everythingwe know about the plants around us and compare it to what wedo not know, it would be like comparing a grain of sand to alarge beach. Veterinary medicine is another of these areasof ignorance. One doctor can learn basically what we know topractice veterinary medicine on every kind of animal thatpeople keep for pets. One doctor cannot learn even enough toreally master one specialty on what we know about people.Studying things that are important to people or where we hopeto find a profit is where the money for research is. Inevery other area, and in any area where it has been possibleby traditional assumption and usage to cut corners, we as aspecies are still as ignorant as homo erectus sitting aroundthe first campfire. Think about it and pick your own area toadd to the list of areas of human ignorance. The list is
literally infinite. I remember my big brother telling me that grass couldnot cause cancer. I studiously kept a straight face.Intuitively I knew that if sucking in burnt plant oils andcompounds at high temperature from one plant could causecancer, doing the same thing with another plant probablywould to. Science has since vindicated my attitude. Peoplechoose to be ignorant anytime it makes them feel good or
right about something.


INCEST: Incest is frequent between members of a family thatis for one reason or another socially isolated. Lack ofnormal social and sexual intercourse outside the family leadsto seeking it within the family. The behavioral genotypesare generally socially isolated to one degree or another.The leads to incest, and there is a fine line between incestand sexual abuse. This leads to lack of proper socialadaptation on the part of children to sexual matters and thusto more freqent failure o f the behavioral genotypes to beable to reproduce their genotypes. Incest and the socialpressures that contribute to its origin are therefore afactor in the process of extermination the behavioralgenotypes. See also schizotypal skinner box and b ehavioral
genotypes.


INTERFACING: It is silly and self destructive in the long runto try to isolate yourself completely from the company ofmankind. I would find life without a public library verydifficult, while others would miss theaters and some parties.Many books on self sufficiency concentrate on totalselfsufficiency as a sort of ideal. This is good if yourealize that it is not an ideal that is desirable to achieve,but only an ideal that you mean to fall a little short of fora variety of practical reasons. No man is an island and youare always stronger if you can buy sell and trade with yourfellow men for additions to the comfort of your life. Buyingand selling power to a public utility instead of trying tostore your own, trading goods from your garden or shop forother goods or services, having a job outside as well as agenerally independent and self sufficient lifestyle are allvalid and useful things. The key here is knowing that youwill need interfacing, if not for your sake for the sake ofyour children who will need to go out into that world thatyou have left behind and who will need both money andexperience to make a go of it. Plan on some way ofmaintaining real day to day contact and exchange, so thatwhen you need it in an emergency or your children need it
after you, it will exist and be there.


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LAKE1: Lotus are neat plants, some varieties being chinesevegetables, in addition, they provide color, decoration,favorable habitat for fish, and a touch of the exotic. If Ican build the lake I hope to on my property, I have to have
some lotus, m aybe lots of lotus.


LAND: The country is divided into climate zones based onclimate, i.e. first frost dates, and days in the growing
season. My land is in the upper half of zone 8. A good place
for apple trees. It has the same sort of tree pine forest that exists in
northern Louisiana and Arkansas. Average minimum winter temperature should be between 10
and 20 degrees. It is close to the borders of Arkansas, Louisiana, andOklahoma, this gives three additional agriculturaluniversities/stations that I can write to for information on
locally adapted plants. My land is in the Gulf-Atlantic coastal plane whichincludes parts of Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama,Georgia, northern Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina,
Virginia, Maryland and areas northeast. Land Classification is B2b, irregular plains with 50-75% of slope in lowland. Again, this land type follows
states mentioned above. The ground is platform deposits overlaying basement
rocks from the paleozoic age. Sedimentary rocks were laid down in the oligocene,
eocene, and paleocene. Soil type is U6-8, All the preceding follows generallythe geographical distribution for the states already
mentioned. It is covered in the oak hickory pine forest which is
typical of the areas already mentioned. Mean solar radiation based on daily reading is around450 langleys, gram calories per square centimeter. In julythis goes up to 600, in january it drops to 250, october itsaround 400, and in april 450. It receives approximately 2800
hours o f sunshine annualy. Roughly 66% of annual rainfall evaporates away. Meanannual precipitation is between 40 and 48 inches. On the
average it has 90 rainy days a year. Average annual snowfall is between 0 and 8 inches with
between 1 and five days that it snows each year. Relative humidity is between 60 and 70 per cent all
year long going up a hair in january. Average temperatures are jan40 feb40 mar50, apr60 may70
jun70 jul80 aug80 sep80 oct70 nov60 dec40. Between 30 and 60 days annually with temperatures belowfreezing. April through november are generally freeze free
days. Close to 0 days high air pollution predicted since thebeginning of program predicting such. It's getting closethough. 100 to 350 ppm dissolved minerals in surface water.3000 to 10000 above in ground water. Chemical types in waters
are sodiu m potassium sulfate chloride. Roughly the same numbers on heating and cooling degree
days between 2 and 3000 for both. Last soil map was made in the 1930's. Geological maps
published by federal govt.
Waco has the regional office of the VA.
Zip code area is 765.. 90% of the above information relates to the climate,soil and environment. The conclusion is that plants adaptedto the south in general will grow in my land. This is usefulin selecting nurseries to purchase trees and shrubs from.Trees grow n in the same climate and soil that my land islocated in will naturally be better adapted to my land. Inaddition, it tells me what states I can look to for plantsand information on plants suitable to my land. In additionto my soil type continue ing up to Virginia, my temperaturezone goes up the east coast of Virginia and ends in Maryland.What Jefferson grew at Monticello I can probably grow on my
land.


LAW AND CHAOS, ARGUMENT FOUR: The third argument of law andchaos demonstrated that it was impossible to demonstrate theexistence of God, since Gode being defined as omnipresent isequally present in all things. Therefore, you could notseparate Him out and say here, this is God, or here, by theabsence of God in this we demonstrate his existence in thisover here. It is useful to use this argument to prove theexistence of God. The first step in this is to point out thefallacy in one of its basic assumptions. That God is equallypresent in all things. As men have free will, God is notequally present in the actions of all men, some men beingmore godly than other men. Evil is not apparent in thenatural world. All things in nature, where god is presentseem well ordered with wonderful beauty and amazingcomplexity. It is only in the affairs of man that evil isapparent. Having demonstrated that God is absent in theactions of some men and that in his absence evil appears, itfollows that the absence of evil in nature is proof of theexistence of God. Thus evil becomes evidence of the
existence of God.


LIMITATIONS: Sometimes limitations are your best friends. Most design starts with an idea followed immediately by considering the size of the system needed and the limitating factors on how it can be built. Frequently the first real inspiration on how to do something comes with a knowledge of the limitations you have to work with. The needed size of a hot water system may suggest a source for the water reservoir or solar collector. The size of a fruit or vegetable may suggest specific methods of preparation. The area you have to use may suggest the technique of planting or gardening that is best for you. Frequently, you are just drifting aimlessly until the specifics of a sitaution, its
limitations, point you at the target.


L.I.S.A.: Low Input Sustained Agriculture. This is anacronym for a system of gardining which returns plant andorganic wastes to the soil in an attempt to eliminate theneed for artificial chemical fertilizers. I spoke to aprofessor at Texas A&M which is where I learned the acronym,his feeling was that you couldn't get more from the soil than
you put into it. This seems to make sense. The Stout System, so called after Ruth Stout the authorof several no work gardening books depends on addingnutrients to the land in a system of perpetual mulch. Thismulch comes from waste organic material grown elsewhere andthus amounts to robbing one piece of land to make anotherpiece richer. It produces extremely good garden crops withalmost no work but planting and harvesting. It does not in
any way contradict the professors opinion. Mr. Fukuoka on the other hand has produced good crops ofcommercial size and quality on his rice paddies in Japan for25 years without adding anything to the soil. Simply puttingall the stalks from his crops back to mulch his fields afterharvest and only taking the grain, not the stalks and other
waste material. Nature does the same thing, all of the topsoil in theworld represents something from nothing. Fertile soil from
rock and air. Obviously then, it is posssible to make LISA work, justas it is possible to make solar power work. This is becauseplants get only fractions of their nutrients from the ground.It appears that a major portion of the material that makes upthe physical structure of plants derives from gases in theatmosphere, converted to cell structure by photosynthesis andthe power of the sun. At one time, a scholar planted a treein a barrel, he let it grow for several years adding nothingbut water. It weighed several hundred pounds when he took itout, but the soil had lost only 3 ounces of his originalmaterial when he weighed it. That is a lot of something fornothing. The limiting factor here is time. Naturalprocesses take time. In intensive agriculture a lot ofemphasis is placed on maximum harvest minimum time. Timespent growing crops just to fertilize the soil is time spentnot growing cash crops. On the other hand, no time is lostby plowing the stalks of corn back into the ground where it
grew for humus. I expect that in the end, a compromise will be reached,to maintain soil quality it will be mandatory to keep thesoil either growing plants or covered with the remains ofplants and this will be done, chemical fertilizers will stillbe used, though with more restraint than presently, to give aboost to agricultural production and soil fertility. It ispossible however that doing so introduces chemical imbalancesin the plants which makes them resemble weak or diseased
growth and thus more attactive to pests.


LOKI: It seems sometimes that Loki might have gotten a bum rap. He was the god of hearth fire, and his eventual fate was the same as Prometheus in the greek myths. He also was the God who examined the schemes of the gods and found fault with them. Forethought, the translation of prometheus is thus applicable to him. As the god of the hearth fire or fire used by man his role is the same as that of Prometheus who gave fire to man. Finally his punishment was the same. I believe that the romans identified him with prometheus in their comparison between viking gods and their own. Wodin was matched with Hermes, and Thor with Zeus. Since all the IndoEuropean peoples have common origins for their language and mythology this is a likely identification. I see his evil reputation growing from his identification with the hearth fire. I see viking mothers warning their children, don't play with that, it is tricksy and dangerous. Vikings growing up to distrust Loki or hearth fire, for the god was the fire and the fire the god in those days. Then naturally, having an evil reputation, and being punished in the godcycle, it was only natural for him to become increasingly from generation to generation an evil and terrible figure. Like I said, I expect the Loki/Prometheus
got a bum rap. Loki's alterego in the myths of North American indiansis without doubt the trickster. He is after all anarchetypal figure. Like all archetypes he figures in theuniversal mythology of mankind. His image and role changewith the sophistication and technology of the society inwhich he is described, and by studying these changes it ispossible to acquire an insight into the nature of man that herepresents and how they fit into different types of society.The coyote is both a wise figure and a fool in NativeAmerican myths. Wise in the secrets of the universe and afool in his relations with other thinking beings. Heconstantly makes enemies of bitter monsters which any manwould have known better than to anger, and is hunted andattacked. His behavior reveals a very real lack of insightinto the motives of other beings and a total lack of beliefin their ability to compell his behavior in any way. He hasno common sense when it comes to dealing with his fellowbeings. Thus he offends the powerful and the weak alike andends up with no sympathy or friends. Yet, for more primitivepeoples, he retains a certain heroism, because for them, hiscleverness is frequently the difference between survival anddeath. He becomes less powerful and more the fool associety, mythology and social laws ofwhich he is lamentablyignorant become more powerful and absolute. He is generallyrecognized as being at least occassionally benevolent, evenin the Norse versiion where because of his rivalry for therole of god of cleverness with both Wodin and Baldur, he
becomes an evil figure. It is easy to suffer the fate of Loki in human society today if you are unfortunate enough to lack an insight into human biases and bahavior and only see the truth as you see it. Coupled with an intellect which makes your vision frequently more accurate than others, this is a sure recipe for being hated, especially by those that you care the most
about. In the end, Loki like the other Norse Gods destroyshimself. The difference is that his actions bring his doomupon him, while the dooms of the other viking gods are
exaggerated aspects of the gods that they destroy.

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MAN: Probably the first domestic animal or pet ever kept by
woman. See also SURVIVAL, SPEECH.


MARRIAGE: The distinguishing feature of marriage is that itis a social contract within which sexual contact is sociallysanctioned and approved. This plus the fact that it isgenerally a contract between a man and a woman have led toits being ass ociated with a large number of other attitudesand traditions in different times places and societies.These attitudes and traditions normally started out as purelyfunctional and necessary division of labor and safeguard thepartners in the contrac t kind of things. Notably since menwere normally the partners most likely to wander, mostsafeguards and commandments were intended to provide someprotection for the female partner. In our maodern society,where the technology of today has remove d the functionaljustification for most of the accepted and traditional dutiesand expectations of the marriage partners marriage has becomelittle more than something people do because they read aboutit in romance novels or saw it in a movie. A me aninglesssocial ritual as easily dissolved as it is completed.Essentially, marriage has become a habit of our societyrather than a useful social unit. As things stand today,society recognizes duties on the part of ome member of themarriage uni t, and refuses to recognize any kind of duty onthe other member. Men are obligated to provide supportduring the marriage and alimony and/or child support afterthe marriage is terminated. Failure in these duties isillegal and may incur any numbe r of punishments. I cannotname one duty that women are socially obligated to provide aspart of marriage, much less one duty that they are legallyobligated to provide. I suppose that this seems unfair to meonly because I am a man. But somehow, I cannot help but feelthat a contract that is binding only on one partner is not avalid contract. I suspect somehow that in our modern urge toreform everything and make it better, the basic meaning ofmarriage as a valid and meaningful social con tract has been
lost. Again, the distinguishing feature of marriage is that itis a contract in which sexual contact is socially sanctionedand allowed. This indicates that it is a contract based uponproviding sexual services between the partners. Any study ofhuma n culture will bear out this basic concept. It followsupon some simple and straightforward facts of human nature.A) men are going to get laid, B) if they cannot do it withflowers, they will do it with force, C) women are normallyrelated to men, D) men object to their female relatives beingforced. These mutually opposing human tendencies producedthe compromise called marriage. Marriage provided the femalerelative a guarantee of some respect and social standing. Itwas a proof of her st atus as a woman who could not just betaken and abandoned. She could be had, but only with
guarantees for her well being. Strangely enough love frequently follows marriage underthese circumstances. Men are sometimes almost patheticallygrateful for sex. They are almost always grateful for it,whether it is the result of a permanent marriage contract, ora one nig ht cash transaction. The accumulation of thisgratitude or appreciation over a period of months or yearscoupled with familiarity and mutual support in doing thethings needed to maintain life and comfort produces love.Women like being attractive to men, the fact that a man comeback to her time after time, is a nice feeling for a woman.Even if she doesn't always feel like it at the time. Couplethis with familiarity and the support that a man gives in themarriage, and again you get love . This is a naturalprocess, and is the process on which successful marriages are
built. In our modern society, a woman has no obligation toprovide sexual satisfaction to her partner. Men have beentried and convicted of rape for forcing their wives when thewife said no. This short circuits the process described inthe proceedin g paragraph. The man goes to his wife. Hiswife says no. He thinks 'If I push it I go to jail'. Hegoes to a bar. The woman thinks. If he really wanted me, hewould have tried harder. Or, A real man wouldn't have let mesay no. A liberated wom an may not think these things, butthere is evidence that they are biologically programmed
responses. We will discuss them one at a time. If he really wanted me, he would have tried harder. Thisresponse shows a sensitivity on the woman's part to thesecurity of her marriage. Lack of sexual urgeny in herpartner suggests a failing partnership. This suggests a lossof security an d support for her children. This is a threatto her survival, and nature naturally alarms women when their
survival is threatened. A real man would not have let me say no. Women who have the children of strong men will have strong children. It is natural for women to periodically test the strength of their men. Men should have no reason to fear physical confrontation with their women. A man who backs down is obviously weak, or cowardly, and unable to protect her or her children. If he won't fight to get laid will he fight to protect his wife. What a wimp. This is a threat to her survival and nature alarms women w hen their survival is
threatened. Liberated women may not think the above but they arebound to feel them and feeling them, lose the comfort andsecurity that their partners continued sexual interest shouldgive them.. Society should either abolish marriage as ameaningless soci al ritual. Or it should recognize its roleas a contract between two individuals for emotionallyessential sexual services. Admitting that sex is acontractual obligation, and not an option for the partnersbarring actuall physical pr psychological inability toprovids same. The concept that a man can rape his wife isone of the most unnatural and perverted legal concepts of ourage. It may sound like it guarantees human freedom andhappiness. Generally however, forcing feeling beings to live under unnatural and perverse artifical rules decreases
their happiness, it does not increase it. The other part of marriage is the provision of mutual support in necessary tasks. Men are obligated to do this. Women are not. More than this, the share of this tasking has changed remarkably over the last two hundred years. Two hundred years ago, most marriages were rural couples with clearly defined functional roles. The roles were fair and equitable in that each partner generally did what they did best, and everything they did was absolutely necessary for their health and survival. Men would get up and work outside the house for the day, while women accomplished the household tasks. This would be broken by tasks that required everybody working together inside and outside the home. Today, men still leave, and work not from sun to sun but only for eight or nine hours a day in an ideal situation. Automation has shortend their work to that degree. This shortening however is not a measure of work accomplished, but of how greatly automation has increased the amount of work o ne man can do in a day. Women however are in another category. Housework has not increased as work required of men has. Very few jobs however have been as completely automated as housework has compared to what it was 200 years ago. Washing machine s have replaced scrub boards, ranges and microwaves have replaced open fires. Refrigerators and supermarkets have replaed or removed the need to can and store vast quantities of food. All in all, with the exception of keeping a keen eye on the chil dren, the tasks that were the traditional lot of women have been so automated that what literally took 12 or 14 hours of constant work 200 years ago may now be accomplished in a couple of hours a day. Leaving ample time for soap operas. From this s lavish drudgery however, it is still necessary that women be liberated even further, so men who work eight or nine hours must go home and do their fair share of this two or three hours of drudging slavery, or be considered
male chauvinist pigs. I am not quite sure where the support of two peopleworking together to do the things needed in life that shouldexist in order to build a lasting loveand respect between twopeople can exist in the above picture of a modern marriage.Possibly, this has something to do with the high marriage
failure rate in modern America. The necessity for both partners to be wage earners inmodern america may do more to save marriage as a socialinstitution than any other single factor. Both partnerswork, both have to sacrifice their time and sweat to maketheir lives together work. Each is daily presented with thevision of their partner making sacrifices for their sake andthe sake of the marriage. It is on that kind of thing, not a
life of leisure that successful relationships are made. In a relationship where you have one wage earner and onehomemaker, then it is ridiculous to suggest that thewageearner should be obligated to share in the domesticchores. If the woman works then the man should do the
housework and take care o f the children and vice a versa.


MARTIAL ARTS: Flameshadow says in his Principia Magica"There are three types of learning, mental, physical, andspiritual. Of these, only mental can be had from books, theothers must come from experience." This applies as much tothe martial as to the mystic arts. Physical knowledge ofwhat it feels like to get hit, and to hit, to sweat andstrain, to move fast and hit hard, these things come onlyfrom practice. With such practice comes spiritual knowledge,the subtle feel of a fight, whe n to meet an opponents eyes,and when not to. How it feels to win and to lose. How tochange your own feelings to change the balance of the fight.Then you can get mental knowledge of pressure points, newtechniques and weapons from books. But wi thout experience,
books are useless. The SCA is a fine school for the physical and spiritualaspects of being a warrior if you are lucky enough to be in a
group with a good fighting tradition. One of my friends from Georgia, while serving in Korea remarked that he was going to buy one of those cutting things that all the Koreans used. I told him that they were called kama and that if he took one back to the states everyone would think that he thought he was one of those kung fu killers because they were one of the traditional martial arts weapons. He said, 'but they cut everything with them.' I said true, that is what they are for. The irony here is that the traditional martia l arts weapons are frequently not weapons at all. They are the tools that farmers used and had to have to plant and harvest. They were the only weapons that conquerors could not take away from the peasants. So the peasants learned to use them with great skill as weapons. The kama a scythe for harvestingrice, nunchaku a flail for beating the husk from the grain,sai winnowing forks for separating husk from grain, and bostaffs for sliding through the handles of buckes and hauling
water from the well. People who think that nunchaku make you into a warrior because Bruce Lee used them have no understanding of what it means to be a warrior. A real modern martial art would develop kata for hammers, screwdrivers, crescent wrenches and other common houshold tools of today. It is just as
easy to kill with a hammer as it is with nunchaku.


MARXISM: I have been saying this for years, since longbefore the collapse of the communist bloc. Still, it shouldbe said again in print. There are two thingd deeply wrongwith Marxism. One is simple and sociological. It lies inthe communist d octrine that the "Means of Production MustBelong to the State'. This doctrine breaks down fairlyeasily in the following manner. People are the ultimatemeans of production in any state. Without them, land,factories, anything at all will not acc omplish any work.Therefore the first thing that a government attempting tomake marxism work must do is control the people. In effectmake them the property of the state. The ancient greeks hada saying, the better half of a man is lost when you make hima slave. This is as true today as it was thousands of yearsago. The saying 'they can work me long, but they can't workme hard' is essentially a slaves philosophy of life. Nationsbound as slaves live by this philosophy, and despite rigi dcontrols, long hours of work, poor wages, and other suchmadness, little really gets done. This might all seem sillyunsupported speculation, but consider. What is the one thingthat every communist nation has had to do within weeks ormonths of becoming communist. Build walls to keep its peoplefrom escaping. America has a border patrol to keep peopleout. The communist bloc had concrete walls and machine gunsto keep people from escaping. Prisons have walls to keeptheir prisoners in. Slaves try to escape. Free men canleave if they want to. The status of the entire populationof a marxist country as slaves is built into the foundationdoctrines of marxism. You cannot implement marxism withoutenslaving your people. Nations o f slaves cannot compete
with nations of free men. The second thing that is truly wrong with marxism is theidea that God is a hoax. I remember seeing a graveyard inthe Soviet Union. There the graves were marked with airplanepropellers, wrenches, wheels, hammers, and other marks of theindiv iduals professions in life. Something within me frozeat the sight of all those persons lying there without anyexposure at all to the grace of God. This was before I hadbecome a Christian. Nonetheless, it chilled me as somehowone of the most ho rrible sights I had ever witnessed. Ibelieve that America is to a large degree great because itsupports the freedom of man to seek God or not as he chooses.God gave man free will, and I suspect that he does not suport
nations that try to second guess that divine decision.

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NORTH SIDE: The north side of the house is the worst sidefor heating due to the cold north winds in the northernhemisphere. I intend to avoid this problem by building anearthsheltered house with no north side, though I may wellplant windbreaks of various trees and shrubs upwind from the
house.


NUTRITION1: The reason that most cultivated varieties forfood plants are less nutritious than wild varieties isobvious. They were selected for size, and thus, as they gotlarger, most of the increase was in water and cellulose, notvitamins and pr otein. This has been noted in 'giant'vegetables that modern plant breeders produce, and most ofour cultivated garden vegetables are giants by comparisonwith their natural counterpart. Thus, we get far fewervitamins and other nutrients from our cultivated foods thanour hunter gatherer ancestors did from their wild foraging.On the other hand, we have more food and comfort. Gram forgram, wild plant foods are generally superior to cultivatedplants. On the other hand, cultivated plants g ive more
grams.

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OPTIMISM: Frequently, the modern establishment seems to beincurable optimists dreaming of unknown solutions toproblems that are facing our world today. As strange andsilly as it seems, this kind of optimism has historicvalidity and is frequentl y based on analysis of history andthe ability of mankind to overcome problems. It is true thatwe cannot afford to ignore the problems of our environmentand that the world will be vastly improved by increasedpersonal awareness of ecological needs and the presence ofecologically valid technology for living. A world ofgardeners who use every space they can to grow fruits andflowers will be a beautiful place, the people happier bacausethey get to help create something beautiful and vital w ithevery plant they grow, but much of it will be possible onlywith machinery and technology. We cannot afford to turn ourbacks on optimism. If we give up dreams, we turn our faces
towards death.


ORCHARD: My primary interest in fruiting trees and busheslies in growing a wide variety of fruits and nuts for my ownuse, rather than in the successful commercial production offruit and nuts for sale. Thus, compromises between optimumgrowth sit uations for the trees can be made because I evenif I marry and have a large family will not require nearly asmuch fruit as several fruit and nut trees will produce.Under these circumstances, the reason for having full sizedspecimens is their lon g life, their beauty as shade trees,and in those circumstances where the full sized varietiesrequire less care than the dwarf or semidwarf varieties.Planting clumps of dwarf or bush fruits together to formsmall arbors and mazes with small benche s or tables hiddenin amongst them might make a wonderful compromise betweenfood and folly. For my purposes, one bushel each of five orsix different varieties is infinitely preferably to 7 or 8bushels of one variety. The only problem with the dw arftypes is that generally, being manmade so to speak, theyrequire more care, more constant pruning, and more of myprecious time than more natural full sized specimens. On theother hand, there are probably a hundred different varietiesof apple alone that could grown on my land, I could do thaton an acre with dwarfed varieties, while it would take moreland than I care to spend on apples to do that with full
sized trees. See also Gardens 3.


ORGANIC: There seems to be some sort of conflict betweenorganic and chemical methods of fertilization and pestcontrol. I lean heavily towards the organic side of thehouse. There are a number of reasons for this. First, theolder I become the mo re aware I am of the limitations ofhuman knowledge. This awareness leads me to believe thatfollowing natural processes intelligently is probably verywise, and that there probably are micronutrients available innaturally grown fruits and vegetabl es that well may not bepresent in vegetables and fruits grown in methods that are
several steps removed from natural production and processes. I have fantasies about having a home and children,something that I do not really ever expect to do. I like tothink of taking my children into the garden and helping themplant their first plants and sharing with them my knowledgeof gardening a nd growing things. In a chemical environmentwhere pesticides some derived from nerve gases designed tokill soldiers in real wars are used, the opportunities for
this kind of thing seem limited.
Child: Where are the bugs, Dad? Father: "I nuked em. Used chemical warfare based on real nerve gases. Nothing lives here but what I let live, and
not all of that." Where does the conversation go from there. On the otherhand, in an organic garden there are small populations of allkinds of insects, some which eat our vegetables and somewhich eat these pests. Each week brings a new act incolorful natural detail, in which you can point out the bugsthat help and those that hurt. Your child can root for thegood guys and pluck the bad guys off the leaves. While doingso, he or she may gain an intuitive understanding of the
balance and change of natur al systems. I have spent all of my adult life in the military. I amopposed to chemical warfare on the battlefield, and I don't
want it in my backyard.


OUTHOUSE: A modification of a standard outhouse wouldsubstitute a black painted 50 gallon drum in a white paintedwooden enclosure for the standard hole in the ground. Theblack would absorb sunlight more of which would strike it dueto the white pa int. The outhouse itself would be built sothat the barrel would be exposed to the sun but the personusing it would be private. Waste material would be dried andsterilized by solar heat, after which it could be added tothe compost heap. Some mo difications to increase thecomfort and convenience could be introduced. A lid that cutaccumulated smell off until it was levered down to drop thewaste matter into the bin. Exhaust pipes to carry off odorsfrom the barrel can be added as well. A ltogether preferable
to a porta potty.

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PARAMETERS: Limits or parameters are very important when choosing a course of action. Failing other inspiration, simply determining the parameters within which something must be accomplished may be sufficient to inspire you in the opening steps of design. Parameters of a key consideration in designing a human living environment. Such parameters are however extremely flexible, there is no constant standard of what or what is not proper or right for people as living conditions. Some people think that there are, but in truth, such standards vary so much from conutry to country, town to town, even home to home, that they are pretty meaningless. I have fond memories of getting up as a child in cool winter mornings in my grandparents house and the delicious chill of the cool floor under my feet. Because of its association with happy times in my childhood, a distinct chill outside my warm blankets, and a chill floor in the morning are comfortable and stimulating for me. Others might not find them so. Some mornings, I don't like them myself. For the most part, what is right for people is what they grew up with, or what they have dreamed of. Thus the flexibility in creating a home. What are the real parameters? People have been know to say that you cannot build a house which will heat and cool itself totally passively using solar or wind power. Obviously, at the extreme ends of what different cultures of mankind have accepted as comfortable or desirable living conditions, this is a false statement. The majority of homes built before the invention of electricity and widespread use of oil were more or less passively heated and cooled. The question is then if we can build a home which will maintain roughly our current standard of comfort which is totally passively heated and cooled. This is another question entirely, and the answer is probably not. Weather does weird things and may run so hot for so long that the comfort factor will be lost if an external or nonpassive cooling system is not available. Or so cold for so long that life may be endangered or health suffer if some active heating system is not employed. For heating in most cases, in a well designed home, a wood burning stove, a small aux heating system, or even a collapsible mylar fabric solar concentrator which could direct additional heat into the home might suffice. The sad fact is that there are no guarantees. In our cities at the heart of our modern technology. People freeze to death every winter because gas mains burst, electric power fails, or heating fuel just is not available. Considering this, I cannot help but feel that a sound environmental design which takes full advantage of solar heating, and is built to minimize cooling from the north wind, etc. is as safe as being stuck in a fragile city full of unions, gas companies and politicians. Incorporate a backup heating and cooling system, and you definitely have it beat. This rather roundabout discussion kills most of the arguments about passive design that I have heard. Both sides take far too extreme a viewpoint. One side wants to keep building buildings just like we have done for the past few decades since WWII, with no concern at all about energy conservation. The other wants to watch the total collapse of modern civilization from their totally self sufficient environmentally sound nuclear bomb proof holistic temple. I tend to the second side, definitely, but if it means giving up television, cheap beer, and Star Trek reruns, I hope that you can postpone the end of the world till I have gotten off. All of which leaves the question of my personal parameters of design open. I like pretty much the same standards that most americans do. I want my home to be cooler than the outside during the summer and warmer than the outside in the winter. I want to feel when I get home that I have gone somewhere where I have refuge from weather, hassles, madness, and chaos. Where I am in control, and being able to insure a temperature of my choice is part of that control. I expect that most of the time my passive systems will do that for me. Being undergruond, with several feet of earth and limited direct sunchine inside during summer will keep it several degrees cooler than outside. Add in my vines over the window which provide evaporative air conditioning around my home, and I expect plenty of coolth in summer. Similarly, with double glazed windows, no northern exposure, and a fireplace intelligently designed, I expect plenty of warmth in winter. After a military career where I have been irradiated, poisoned, shot at, pissed on, and pissed off, I am fairly tolerant of a wide variety of conditions. On the other hand, after months, years if you put them end to end, under water on nuclear submarines, I remember how the 40 mph winds in February in the Fyrth of Clyde rainstorms were a grace from God for a man who had not felt weather for months when returning from patrol. I really do not want a house which cuts me off from the world. I want to know that wind and rain and sun are right outside, and I want to feel a little bit the passing of the seasons.PASSIVE: See also solar, cooling, heating. Passive systems take advantage of the earths natural energy cycles to heat and cool the home providing a comfortable living environment with a minimum of energy and effort. Southfacing earthsheltered homes are pretty much the ultimate foundation for this sort of thing. Double glazed windows, insulation, and a backup system just in case Murphy visits are the required features. Many different passive or near psssive solar applications are available. One of the most interesting is a wall painted black or dark green to absorb slar heat with a couple of inches of dead air space and then some glazing. Air is heated by the sun, and rises. Cooler air is drawn from the bottom and warm air exhausted at the top. In cold weather the air from the bottom of the house may be drawn in, heated and exhausted back into the house. In warm weather, air from outside could be drawn in, heated and exhausted back to the outside with a one way ent from the top of the house which would allow air from the house to be pulled out as well. the air current created by the hot air would create a pratial vacuom close to such a ent pulling the hot air from the house and thus cooling it in summer. A totally passive system that heats in winter and cools in summer. Placed on the southeast side of a house, such a structure would warm te house in the early morning, but only after sunrise nice for a lazy man but not good for a farmer. On the southwest side of a home such a structure would cool the house in the afternoon. Useful for anyone in most parts of the world.PERRENIALS: Perrenials are plants that grow all year long and do not have to be replanted each year. Some are only perennial in the tropics others are perennial in the northern parts of our country. Many so called annuals are perenial in the tropics. The question of whether a given perrenial plant is indeed perrenial in my garden will depend upon its health, variety, and the microclimate provided for it. The idea behind perennial planting is the Lazy Man's Garden which suppplies him with food and beauty with a minimum of work. Most garden books suggest a perennial bed in addition to annual beds. I love the idea of perrenials along with trees that bear edible fruits, nuts etc. See also Artichokes, Asparagus, Day Lilies, Garlic, Sorrel,

PESSIMISM: Much of the back to the land, energy conservation, enviromental protection, ecology movement appears to be based on a profoundly pessimistic philosophy of life. This is bad. On the other hand, in drawing mankind's attention to real problems that must be addressed they serve a useful purpose and provide a useful service to mankind. This is reminiscent of Wodin's justification for keeping Loki around. That is that a naysayer is a useful copmanion for warriors because he will frequently point out faults in enthusiastic scheming that could get them killed. The reason why this pessimistic veiwpoint is bad is that God does not seem to approve of pessimists. God seems to give success to people who have the faith to try to make dreams happens even against uncertain odds than to those who insist on counting every penny and never risk it. I believe that more doors are open to those filled with hope and dreams than to those who reject hope and consider dreams foolish. The doomsayers seem to have abandoned hope. They want to create a world which will meet the needs of mankind based on closed and limited resources. This will leave a closed and limited world for our children. I cannot believe that the God who scattered superclusters of Galaxies in an infinite universe created such a closed limited and hopless destiny for mankind. God does things in a big way. Let's have a little faith that if we honestly try, we will be able to meet the problems of our future. Of course, I have no sympathy for fools who ignore real problems in the environment on the basis of past experience rather than future promise.

PESTS AND DISEASES: One of the key factors in the development of a pest or disease is the availability of a host. The larger the potential prey, the more room nature has to try new mutations and strains of pest. The more successful nature will be at developing same. Because most human garden plants have been under development and cultivation for thousands of years around most of the world. A huge number of pests and diseaseas have evolved to prey on our produce. The corollary is that a plant not previously existing in a given area will have fewer pest problems and unusual or rare plants likewise. Widely cultivated plants with a narrow genetic base such as corn are the most vulnerable. Aids developed in accord with this same principle. Aids could not become an epidemic without a wide opportunity to reproduce and that is provided only in a promiscuous society. Quite naturally, promiscuous societies have higher numbers of venereal disease than less promiscuous societies. The rumor that aids was developed in southern baptist biological laboratories as an attack onthe godless is only colorful fantasy.

PLANTERS provide space for herbal garden mostly perennial plants. Windows provide passive solar heating during winter, and to cut down on solar heat intake during summer area in front of them is planted with vines to grow tomatoes, squash, grapes, beans, cucumbers, even baby watermelons and similar items. This provides shade and food at the same time. Vines go into compost heap in the fall.

POISONS: After reading gardening books voraciously for about a year, there is a tendency to want to write a book on poisoning people. You just naturally learn so much about it by reading books. So many plants are poisonous, in part or whole that we eat parts of, or medicinal herbs are poisonous except in extremely small quantities. the temptation to do something like 'The Ladies Cooking Sewing and Poisoners Guild Cookbook' is acute. Make shiskebob with sticks of Oleander. Grow poisonous tomatoes by grafting tomatoes to deadly nightshade. Imagine serving someone a tomato fresh off the vine, who could imagine it was poisonous. Make pokeberry pie. Serve green potatoes. Crack the husks on peach pits and serve the kernals inside as nuts. Of course for shear class, an ancient Borgia technique has yet to be beaten in my mind. Poison one side of a knife, then cut fruit for a guest. The fruit on the poisoned side is poisoned the other side wholesome. Serve the guest the freshly sliced fruit. I'm glad teenagers don't read books on gardening. Rock and roll is safer for the rest of us.

PROPERTY: The right to own property has historically been inseparable from real freedom. Property is a kind of power. To be denied property is to be denied the first source of power in society. This is to be made less than equal. The right to own property therefore appears to be logically inseparable from real freedom. It is important to remember things like this.QUESTION: What is the cost per foot length of a tube such as this, compared with normal construction costs?QUESTION: How much of the surface area on the south surface can be removed and still provide sufficient support for the four feet or so of earth on top of the structure?

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RACE WAR: A study of revolution produces a clear economic pattern in every case. The pattern is this, a period of gradual improvement in the standard of living, and increasing hopes for the future followed by recession, and disappointed hopes. The bitterness that this engenders is focused on the local or governmental authorities and revolution results. This was the pattern before the french revolution, before the American revolution and before the bolshevic revolution. In America today we h ave had several decades of improvement in the status of minorities. Greater freedom, economic and educational opportunities, and a general improvement in the standard of living. In the last decade, this pattern of improvement, has slowed, stopped and in some cases seems to have reversed itself. This is thepattern that produces revolution. In this case because ofAmericas peculiar fantasies about racial differences it couldproduce race war. This would be a major tragedy for theentire coun try. It is necessary for white people to keeptrying to help the black people achieve greater equality, andfor black peole to realize that recent economic setbacks have
effected whites as much as blacks. Much of the strength that black people possess in America comes from the support of white people. In a race war, a man has to shoot whoever is shooting at him. He no longer has the freedom to choose to support a minority because he believes in the justice of its claims. Many white people who have supported black claims would be forced to the other side. A race war would probably do more to destroy black gains and strengthen white racism in America
than any other imaginable occurrence.


RACISM: I remember when I was little, my mother told me thatmy Father and brothers thought I was inferior to them becauseI had brown eyes instead of blue eyes like they did. I don'texpect that they would have wanted to have me put to sleep tohel p purify the race, but I think that under the rightcircumstances they would have been glad to have me fixed tokeep me from passing my impure genes along. People are likethat, it is amazing the kind of bullshit that they willbelieve. I remember when my father taught my brothers toplay chess. No one told me what they were doing. I lookedin from the door to the living room and knew it was somethingI was meant to be left out of. I went off to my room alone.Later my little brother G. ca me back to teach me this game.He explained to me that it was a game that he would be ableto beat me at. He explained the rules to me and I wiped himout, won the first game I ever played. I've always knownthat racism was like that. It is a madn ess that becomes evermore extreme. Today its skin color, tomorrow, eye color,then it is hair color, then it is the right shape of nose.
People who racially pure today are sterilized tomorrow. Look at the orient, everyone there has the same hair, sameeyes, same skin, and they can still tell by looking if youare japanese, korean, chinese or vietnamese. They still lookon all these other races as being racially inferior. Racismnever stops. Any difference is enough to provide one personwith a reason todiscriminate against another. Some peoplejust can't feel good about themselves if they aren't grindingsomeone else under their heel and when they get rid of the
big differences they will go on to the little differences. Black people are among the most racist people in Americatoday. You can't have a light skin in the service todaywithout being discriminated against by them. In the chowline they give larger portions to brothers and smallerportions to light skinned people. They lose promotionrecords of white people. Get a chain of command where mostof your NCO's are black and you can expect to have noopportunity for advancement and everything that goes wrongwill be your fault. You know that if they ever come topower it will be sterilization and concentration camps foranyone more than half white, then anyone with less than acertain amount of tannin in their skin will be a second classcitizen. They are not interested in fairness. They wantrevenge, and they want it against people who are not
responsible for their problems.
A plague on both their houses.


RACIAL FANTASIES: One of the most dangerous fantasies in theworld today is tha the advance in freedoms and privileges ofblack people in america is because white people are afraid ofblack people. It is however a fantasy that is inevitable,see VI OLeNCE for the reasons why. White people do not free
the things that they fear, they kill them. There are a lot of reasons for black people to believethat white people are afraid of them. Any time a blackchallenges a white, the white man backs down. White womenlet black men treat them in a way no black woman would put upwith, and whi ch no white woman would put up with from awhite man. White men let black men get away with this.Black people dominate sports and have a disproportionatenumber of their people in the armed services. All of this
adds up to fear in the eyes of any street person. The idea that white people do not want to be thought ofas bad guys, and racists are bad guy means that most of thetime, a white guy is not going to interfere with blackpeople. They are going to back down. If a white guy triesto help a whit e girl in a situation involving a black man,he is guilty of two social crimes, male chauvinism, that ladycan take care of herself, and racism, 'What's your problemman, you don't like seeing a white girl with a black man'.
So he ain't going to doanything. See also. All that shit don't mean nothing to astreet person. That is just someone talking shit to saveface. If you back down you are afraid. That is the pictureof reality that these people have. See VIOL ENCE. Eventhough a larger number of black people for their populationis in the Military than white people, there are still a lotmore white people in the country than black people, and morewhite people in the military. Black people do dominate s
ports, see HYBRID VIGOR. Basically, black people are riding high on the shamethat white people feel about slavery. If they mistake thatshame for fear, they could make a mistake that will fuck up
the world for their children for several hundred years.


RACIAL HYPOCRISY, BLACK: Black people today seem set ongetting revenge on white people for making their ancestorsinto slaves. They want at the least for white people to feelproperly guilty and ashamed of what other white people did totheir ance stors a hundred or more years ago. At the sametime, they are moving for a black racial hegemony whichincludes the blacks of Africa as their beloved brothers.This is amusing, and like most racial movements based more onoratory than on history. The historical facts in this matterpaint a much greyer picture than the black and whitesimplicity presupposed by this picture. First, white peopledid not sell black people into slavery, they did not putchains on black people, they did not send a rmies into blackvillages and make the people their into chained slaves. Thiswas all done to the ancestors of our black people by otherAfrican peoples who were also black. Almost entirely, by thetime white people acquired a black person as a sla ve, thatperson was already in chains, chains forged and locked on himby his fellow africans who preferred what they could get forhim in trade to continueing to share the continent of africawith him. White people did not make black people into slaves, they bought them already slaves from other blackpeople. So, our black people are kissing up to thedescendants of the people who sold them into slavery, solelyon the basis of the color of their skins. This is racistbigotry. They are sayin g, we love you, because you areblack, we don't care that you sold our ancestors intoslavery. On the other hand, the major concentrations ofwhite population have always been in the north. Even in thesouth, black people were generally owned by th e very rich,not the poor. The majority of white people today aredescended of the white people who fought, bled and died inthe civil war on the Union Side. The side that freed theslaves. They are the descendants, or relatives of the peoplewho freed the black americans from slavery. Yet by blackrhetoric they are all guilty of being white, and thus of theslime and disgrace of holding slaves. So today, the modernblack racist movement is kissing the people who sold theminto slavery, the descendants of the poeple who actuallyraided their villages, killed and enslaved their ancestors,because those people happen to be black, while they spit onand put down the descendants of the people who freed them
from that slavery. This indeeda tribute to the hypocrisy that racism engenders. It istrue that much that is wrong has been done to black people inthe history of America, racial discrimination, segregation,raising them to believe that they are somehow inferior to therest of mankind. These things have however also been done tothe irish, the chinese, the japanese, and especially to theAmerican Indians. Black people will say, yeah, see, thewhite people discriminated against everyone. We never didthat. The truth is somewhat different. After slavery wasabolished by the civil war a large number of blacks weremembers of all black cavalry regiments which distinguishedthemselves in the indian wars. Black people are quitejustifiably proud of the bravery and ski ll which theirancestors displayed in these wars. However, the rusult ofthese wars was the virtual genocide of many Native Americanpeoples and the rape of the others as they were driven fromtheir land forbidden access to their sacred sites and wa ysand exposed to diseases which decimated them. Then, at thepoint of rifles frequently held by black soldiers, they wereherded onto reservations where they were given inferior food,poor clothing, and generally allowed to die for theconvenience of their conquerors. I have yet to see the blackpress printing articles about thier sense of shame at whatthey did to the native americans. I have yet to see a blackman walk up to a Native American and say, Here is my money,here is the land I o wn, I am catching a plane back to Africaand giving back to you what my ancestors took away. Yetblack people claim to want white people to do something likethat for them. I have yet to see a black person tell anative american, 'Look man, I am so rry for what my peoplehelped do to your people'. White people at least do that
much for the black people. All in all, black attitudes towards white people areextremely arrogant, self righteous and almost totally lackingin any real knowledge of history or science. Black peoplemay be the most consistently racist people in America today.SInce the y practice a double standard, where racist behavioron their part towards light skinned people is calledbrotherhood, and brotherly pride, while the exact samebehavior towards them is racism and discrimination. Whitepeople have been raised to feel ashamed when theydiscriminate against blacks, black people have been raised tobe proud when they discriminate against whites. Such racismbreeds racism in its turn, and the resurgence in whiteantipathy towards black on colleges and in schools ar oundthe country is largely well earned by the treatment thatblack people give white people. You cannot spit on people
without making them hate you.


RACIAL HYPOCRISY, WHITE: White racists like to point to minor differences on the scores of IQ tests as 'evidence' that black people are less intelligent than white people. Science has looked at this 'evidence' and concluded that it is the result of cultural and linguistic differences, not a difference in intelligence. White racists conveniently ignore this in favor of their prejudice. Then present the white racist with the fact that people of oriental descent seem to consistently score highe r on IQ test than white people and he will say 'Oh, everyone knows that that is due to cultural differences.' So on one hand it is genetic and the next cultural. You can't have it both ways. It takes a white racist to lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time. The only thing that IQ tests and their results prove is that white racists are not an intelligent form of
life. See also, RACE LAW.


RACE LAW: I have a friend who is a quarter indian. He is indian on his mothers side and on his fathers, both were a quarter indian of the same tribe. Because he gets the culture as well as the blood from both sides of his family, he is about half indian in the way he thinks and acts. He recently went to the tribal center to get enrolled on the tribal rolls. He discovered that by law he is not indian. Only members of the tribe who were enrolled on the reservation at the time the tribe surr endered and their descendents are legally members of that tribe. Since his indian ancestors were married to white people before his tribe was enrolled on the reservation, he is not legally a part of the tribe. The reason for that law, is to determine who is elegible for the treaty support from the governmentdue members of his tribe. The more indians, the more supportneeded. Or the more indians, the less there is for eachmember of the tribe when the support is a fixed amount.Basically, t he more indians there are, the more money itcosts somebody. Naturally, since it would cost somebodymoney if people who were a quarter indian were automaticallyindian, most people who are part indian are considered to be
white. It's not about rac e at all, its about money. Black people were imported as slaves. If you free aslave, you lose a valuable piece of property. So the racelaw about black people says that any black blood at all makesyou black that way they could keep each new child as a slave.So today , you have lots of black people wandering aroundwith more white blood than some part indians, but they areblack and the part indians are white. It's not about racialpurity at all, its about money. It always has been. MarkTwain wrote a story ab out two children, one a slave theother a slave holder, the nurse switched them at birth, sinceboth were blonde and blue eyed nobody ever knew. But by theslaver's law one of those blonde haired blue eyed boys was ablack african and the other a wh ite master. Hitler wouldn'thave bought into that. There were literally niggers in theold south that Hitler would have gladly accepted into theThird Reich. If they'd been freed it would have cost oneofthose massa's money. It was never about ra ce, it was
always about money. When the civil war ended losts of freed slaves went upnorth looking for jobs. Those yankees thought it was greatto go down and free the black slaves from their sadisticsouthern masters. They didn't like it when those blackpeople came up no rth and started taking jobs and money awayfrom them. Racism suddenly became a big thing in the north.It became an excuse for putting black people down and keepingthem out of white peoples jobs. It was never about race, itwas always about mone y. To this day, the most racist peopleI have ever met come not from the deep south, but from
Michigan. Well, there is more wealth in life than money. I lookat it and I wonder, which is worth more, a son or a domesticanimal (slave)? How did they ever get white people to buyinto a law that made their own sons and daughters intoslaves. Wouldn 't it have been better to have all your sonsand daughters sitting around the table with you than to havesome of them in slave cabins while only one or two couldshare your life. Wouldn't it be nice today if instead of twopeople named Swartzenheim er hatine each other because one islight skinned and the other dark, if they could meet and talkabout being each others distant relatives maybe, just liketwo light skinned people can. Would you today, whether you
are white or black accept a law that made your children into slaves. Some of the southernersdidn't. One scotsman sent his black children north toschool, and they became officers and served the north duringthe civil war. He made sure that his children would not beslaves. Tod ay, every white man who puts down black peopleis denying himself not only some very fine friends, but he isalso casting away some not too distant cousins and possiblysome step brothers and sisters. Which is more important,family or skin color. Racists on both side of the line needto think about that. Americans are all related to eachother, they have been living together too long not to be.You can't spit on another American without spitting on
someone who is more than likely distantly related to you. Just remember the next time you hear someone talkingabout race, it was never about race at all, it was alwaysabout money. SHoot, white people who read about HYBRID VIGORmight to go out and marry black people in the hopes ofproducing a winni ng athlete. Athletes make lots of money
these days.


RACIAL PROPAGANDA: Probably the most effective propaganda going these days to make white people racist is the behavior of young black men. Such people going around with chips on their shoulders, putting down anything and everything that they do not recognize as black/african, because they mistakenly believe that it is white and because they mistakenly believe that white is bad, are walking talking advertisements to make anyone with a pale skin a dedicated racist. The counterbalance to this is the many fine and decent black people who go quietly about their day to day affairs improving their lives and standard of living in all walks of life. Unfortunately, it is the loud and arrogant assholes, not the decent ones that most light skinned people have to deal with. This is because loud pushy people are more likely to push their way into white peoples lives than quiet hard working people are. So if you are a white person who has gotten a bad attitude about black people from some of th e assholes wandering around. I suggest that you go to a church, and meet some decent black people and find out that while every race has assholes, (you can think of some white people you are ashamed to be numbered in the same race with with little t roubel), every race also has saints, and very decent people as well. It is worth the effort involved to widen your circle of acquaintance and make sure that
includes some decent blacks.


RACIAL PURITY: When you make a hybrid variety of corn, youwant to maintain the two parent strains pure so that you canproduce another generation of hybrid corn next year. If youdon't the next generation will show diminished hybrid vigor,with ma ny specimens being indistinguishable from the twoparent strains. There are advantages to having differentkinds of people in the earth. Different people meandifferent talents, different abilities, different ways oflooking at things. When situat ions change, you may needthose different people to help handle the new situation.Genetic diversity is considered a strength in every species.It is just as much a strength in humanity as in any otherspecies. Trying to breed differences out of p eople, eitherto make everyone the same to get rid of racism, or to purifythe race by eliminating impure strains is stupid andcontrasurvival for humanity as a whole. It has beensuggested that if you wre to breed everyone together tillthey had ba sically the same skin color, you would get rid ofracism. This is bull, Japanese and Koreans have the samehair, eyes and skin, but they can tell the difference andconsider each other inferior races. Racism has its origins
in familial, tribal andnational pride. You can only be rid of it by teachingchildren that it is wrong. More than that, by breedingeveryone tog ether you would still be eliminating genotypes.A process of sorting would begin that would select a standardand eliminate genotypes that would have remained viable inthe strains where they originated. Such a policy is covertlygenocidal. Striving to maintain racial purity by eliminatingimpure strains is overtly genocidal. Neither of thesepolicies is to be desired. On the other hand, themaintenance of various genetic strains in relatively purestates is desirable as is the cross breeding of such strains
to produce hybrid vigor. Persons of specified racial types who prefer to marry within their own kind thus perform a biological service for the human race by maintaining the existence of their own strain. This behavior should not be criticised. It may be done for all he wrong reasons, but in the long run it has a beneficail biological effect. On the other hand persons who condemn other persons because they are not racially pure do not perform a valuable service. This behavior should be
criticized. In this area, the thing to avoid is the condemnation of people because they are different. The fact that they are different is in and of itself a good thing and the maintenance of that difference is a good thing. Even the
mixing of two different strains is a good thing.


RADISHES: Peppers are supposed to be hot, radishes are supposed to be mild. Foods are supposed to taste the way that we expect them to. My father always liked hot spicy foods. He found some radishes on sale and was delighted with the deal. I bit into one, and it was really hot. I assumed that that was the way it was supposed to taste. Imagine my surprise when I heard my father complain about how the radishes weren't any good after he tried them. I may one day grow some radishes in hot we ather when they turn hot, just to try them out as a spicy adjunct to foods. Why should peppers be the only things that are supposed to
be hot?


RAP: Rap could stand for racist aggression propaganda. As aprimarily black street musical movement it bears thehallmarks of propaganda music throughout history. Most rapmusic has only one message. 'You can't beat me.' A lot ofit is overtly r acist and anti- white. It communicates onlytwo messages, when translated, we can win, and the enemy isbad. Propaganda, pure and simple. Originating as it does inthe black ghettos, it is a sign of the tension discussed in

RACE WAR. While the rea lly racist videos generally leaveplaces like MTV very rapidly, there is little doubt that theyget a lot of play time in all black venues. One hopeful signis the use of the rap type format by white performers. Thisdilutes the all one color again st the whitey message thatall black rap music presents. It may change what is a racist
movement into a political movement. This is to be hoped for.


REFRIGERATION and freezing will need a high tech assist.There is no 100% energy efficient method of providing thisessential necessity. Ice could be created through radiantcooling to bring a given area down to about freezing but youreally need t emperatures of 0 degrees Fahrenheit or less forlong term food storage. Any passive system without a powerdriven backup would be dangerous in case of prolonged unusualconditions which prevented the proper segregation oftemperatures in the passive system. Still, the possibilityof building a radiant cooler which produces ice, thencirculating an appropriate fluid through this cold reserviorand into the freezer or refrigerator shows some promise as a
technique for energy efficient cooling.



RETICLES: The reticle in modern sporting rifles is oftenlost to view before it becomes impossible to see game withmodern sporting scopes. In a long discussion of this in amagazine, it did not mention illuminated reticles, which areused on tanks . It seems to me that a radiant reticle isprobably just as simple to make and install as a plain blackone, and could be used in a post, dot or crosshair reticle.It would simply and inexpensively solve the problem of layinga reticle on the targe t in difficult dawn or duckconditions. An actual illuminated reticle would help bystaying distinct when laid on a dark black or brown figurewhere a blick reticle might blend in. Certainly there isroom for some form of illuminated reticles in hun ting
sights.


ROBOTS: Everybody is missing the boat on robots. All arobot needs to be able to do is operate the stereo,microwave, and fetch a beer to become an indispensable partof the american home. Each of these is easy to engineer.Just give a robot remo te control capability like one ofthese programmable master remote controls and it can operateall your modern appliances. Then just store your beer in oneof these refrigerator space savers they advertise. Give therobot the ability to find that o ne spot in the fridge, nothard, and it can fetch a beer. Voila, an indispensableaddition to the american houshold. A remote control that
fetches beer. You'll sell a million of em.


ROBOTS2: People are also going about the problem of mobilityin robots wrong. Robots don't need to be able to go up anddown stairs like people. This is difficult to engineer.Just install a metal robot ladder where you want to give therobot acce ss and give it the ability to climb it. A simplemetal pole with threads could do the job, and could beinstalled for a real (as opposed to commercial cost), of 20or 30 dollars. It would also be easy to give the robot theability to use it compare d to the technical difficultiesstairs involve. A simple hoist the robot could operate would
also be effective.

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SAFETY: Every bedroom needs its own escape path. Thusbedrooms will be built alongside the south facing area. Thisalso provides sunlight for an airy and pleasant environment.The natural escape path is through the available window.This will be p artially blocked by foliage from plants grownfor sunscreen in summer. This is a matter which must bedealt with by good planning and forethought. Further,function of windows as escape routes should be checkedquarterly. Say on or before those holidays which commemoratethe spring and fall equinox and the summer and winter
solstices.

SCOPES: See reticles.


SCHIZOTYPAL SKINNER BOX: For human beings who have aninherited pattern of bahavior that is different than that ofthe culture or society in which they are born, that culturebecomes a sort of skinner box inducing schizotypal behavior.A schizotypal environment is characterized as one where thepeople around the subject play games, say things they don'tmean, and otherwise behave in a manner that confuses the
emotional development of the subject. Persons possessing an inherited pattern of behaviorreact in specified ways to specified stimuli. In a societythat teaches a different reaction to those stimuli. Itappears as though everyone is constantly signalling one thingand then doing another. This is a schizotypal environmentand it induces schizotypal behavior in the persons subjectedto it. Such persons ar then diagnosed as abnormal(inferior), schizophrenic (crazy/inferior). This isshameful, and such families frequently choose not to havechildren, or to adopt. The genotype is thus purged fromhumanity. This process of extermination is continueingaround us all the time as genotypes that developed in moreprimitive times are purged by the arbitrary strictures of our (civilization). Theoretically, some of these genotypes mayprove to possess qualities crucial for the survival ofmankind at some time in the future, but for now they are
different (unwanted). So who cares.


SECOND AMENDMENT: The major reason for the right to keep andbear arms was to safeguard the freedom of the individualAmerican. Not his ability to fight indians, nothis abilityto hunt deer, his freedom from oppressive government. Thearms that th e individual American kept at that time wereessentially military arms not different in capacity from theweapons carried by the armies of Europe. It is clear thatthe purpose of this amendment is to maintain the ability ofAmericans to rise up and fight against some governmentoppression. Clearly also, the arms meant, were militaryarms. That is to say arms that allowed Americans sufficientability to challenge the military might of some foreigninvader or of their own government if it got to big for itsbritches. American history leaves no doubt that this was theintent of this amendment at the time. Thus, in a strictconstitutional sense, Americans have the right to uzi's, AK47's, and other silly toys if they want them. Even to tanksand fighter aircraft. There is no constitutional basis fordenying them this right. Indeed, Saddam's recent oppressionof his own people with his armored forces shows that it ishard for civilians armed with rifles to stand up againsttanks. To maintain that balance of power between theindividual and his government it is not unreasonable to allowthe individual citizen of good repute to maintain his owntank or fighter plane if he has the money and inclination todo so. America has been free so long that it has convinceditself and is going on convincing the rest of the world thatthat is mankind's natural state. History however suggeststhat people become slaves of their government with greatregularity. Americans need torememb er this while
reinterpreting their constitution to fit the times.


SEEDS: I remember being baffled by the knowledge that modern seeds were hybrids and did not breed true. When it came to providing personal independence in a survivalist sense, this was a major stumbling block. How could you survive if you could not save seeds. I guess that I knew that somehow it had been done, but I did not know where to go, or what to do to find that lost knowledge. ThenI had it handed to me on a silver platter, so naturally and with so little effort on my part, that I did n ot even realize immediately that one of the great stumbling blocks in my world had been destroyed. What was the agent that did this. Gardening books and the Seed Savers exchange. One led me to knoeledge of the other. The other gave me the knowledge of how to save seeds, even though I did not realize that that was what I was looking for. I became addicted to gardening books because they are written with love. Love is infinitely addicting. Reading books written by pelple who love what they a re doing is therefore addicting. Gardeners love what they do. I was following this easy path of pleasure, and it gave me knowledge. Knowledge that to some measure freed me from bondage to industry and megacorporations. This is a small miracle. Saving seeds varies from plant to plant. Some plant types require great pains to isolate the individual varieties to guarantee pure seed in the next generation. Others do not. Beans, potatoes, tomatoes, can be planted in relatively large varieties with relatively little separation. Corn, squash, and melons on the other hand require enourmous pains to assure proper separation or else require hand pollination. Inevitably, I will raise more varieties of the easy ones than the hard ones. Nature works that way. I think having several different colored potatoes would be great. I wonder if you can have naturally blue and red french fries or if they lose the color when cooked. Make a nice set of fries for the fourth. Red, white, and
blue.


SEEDS, wearing out: There is a phenomena among people whokeep seeds where the seeds just run out. This is generallyconsidered to be due to not raising enough of the seed eachyear to maintain genetic viability. This leads to theeventual lack of vigor and failure of the plant to survive.There is a danger of cheetahs dying of this, and it is also amarker of the idiocy of a superrace ideal such as Hitler had.Very possibly eliminating all but the 'purest' types would donothing more than ensure the eventual death of mankind due togenetic exhaustion. In this peculiar phenomena lies one ofthe most interesting and powerful arguments for creationism.In the idea that genes wear out lies the idea that maybeeverything in the world was created, and new things cannotevolve, because genes wear out instead of changing andadapting. This pehnomena is accelerated in small geneticpopulations because the incidence of genetic failure due tominor mutations is greater than the replacement by generationof the populace. Thus the presence of genetic failureeventually overtakes the entire popoulace and it fails. Thenumber of unfavorable genetic changes in every generationoutnumber the number of benevolent genetic changes by afactor of thousands to one. In addition, due to lack ofvariability in a small gene base, there is no flexibility andthe organisms ability to adapt to changing conditions isnonexistent and even a minorchange in environment is capableof accomplishing the extinction of the variety. This is thedanger in the case cheetahs, and one of the many dangers that
racism poses for humanity.


SEWAGE DISPOSAL: Composting toilets are the only methodreally acceptable to a perfectionist in this area. Everyother method is only a way of putting off recycling thewaste, or a way of shifting the problem to someone elsesshoulder. Not to mention a waste of fertilizer. Thequestion becomes how much and what kind of treatment isrequired to make the use of human sewage as fertilizer safeand sanitary. Some composting toilets simply make a compostheap of sewage and kitchen waste which composts graduallyover the process of a year or more as it slides to the end.The only drawbacks here are space and capacity. One suchtoilet only handling to or three persons waste effectively.Another composting toilet uses natural gas fires to bake thewaste material dry thus sterilizing it for disposal. Itappears to me that if a fairly normal toilet were connectedto a tank downhill from the house solar heat could be used toheat the resulting slush to boiling and hold it there until adry mass was produced. Such heat treatment would sterilizethe waste sufficient to make it safe to add to a normalcompost pile where it could contribute its nutrient materialto a mixture of vegetable waste and soil. The only realhazard in human waste as opposed to say, cow manure, is thenumber of disease organisms to which men are susceptible.These must be destroyed, after which it becomes just another
kind of fertilizer. Indeed studies have shown that temperatures inside anaerobic compost heap get high enough to kill all knownpathogenic bacteria in human wastes. The only reason fordoubt here is that these temperatures occur inside the heapand pathogens might survive at the edges, though turning itwould probably take care of the problem. Such temperaturesnever get much above 160 degrees, and a solar heater in theTexas sun should beat that with ease. I would aim fortemperatures a little below boiling. Then go ahead and addthe waste to the compost heap before adding it to my orchard
or garden, and I would probably drop it in the orchard. This is probably a triple safe method of wastemanagement, but I used to work nuclear weapons on nuclear
submarines and I like being triple safe.


SEX: Sex is one of the most powerful forms of natural magic.See principles of conversion and similarity. As such, it hasa life of its own. Like all natural forces, it does not lenditself easily to man's artifical and unnatural expectationsof the world. Many things that are done between two peopleduring sex could be considered immoral and degrading orotherwise contemptible in the modern world. People in factdo try to regulate the sex lives of others. It should beremembered that sex is how souls are selected for birth intothe world. Souls can only come into the world if sex forms apattern of similarity proper to bring them into the world.This must bear a relationship to the type of life they willlive. For that life will be determined by the nature of thesoul living it. Thus the feeling of sex must be a sort ofinstant summation of life itself. In this light, many forms
of behavior that seem strange become explicable. Pain and sex. Life includes pain. A soul that willhave to deal with pain in life can expect to be calledthrough some element of pain in sex. Humiliation and sex.Souls that will have to deal with humiliation, inflicting itor surviving it will have some degree of humiliation in theirconjuring. Duty and sex. Where duty or obligation is thedriving force for one partner to accept pain, discipline,humiliation or shame, then a soul with a driving sense ofduty might well be being conjured. This is illustrative ofvictorian sex which occurred during the height of Britainsimperial age. It is interesting to note that America'sinterest in bondage and discipline appears to be rising with
America's role as the Imperial power in the world. Animals clearly have sex based upon the nature of theirrole in life. The crueler the life style, the harder thesex. Some females cannot even ovulate during sex withouthigh levels of fight or flight chemicals coursing throughtheir blood. Kinky sex is usually male initiated in humans.Women choose their men. They generally decide who will beallowed to bring children into the world. They then adaptthemselves to the kind of sex that that man needs to bringmore like himself into the world. Hence the kinky sex beinggenerally male initiated. At times in history, women haveattempted to close the gates of the world to certain types ofsouls. This has generally resulted in their having theircontrol over their own bodies brutally taken from them. Thisis entirely justified. Such attempts are a form of spiritual
genocide. Rights abused are rights lost. Any thing that two consenting adults do together thatdoes not place one at risk, and allows the possibility ofchildren is biologically moral. Sex that refuses apossibility of children is biologically immoral. Attempts toregulate sex on any other basis is an attempt to control whatsort of souls are born into the world. To close Pandora'sbox so to speak. This is dangerous because I do not trust
mankind's wisdom in such matters. It should be noted that such sex implies control of lifeby the soul involved. It is needed to bring souls that willchoose pain and humiliation because of duty. It may not beneeded for souls that have no choice. It may therefore be
characteristic of those social strata where choice exists. All of this being taken into account, people should notjudge each other on the basis of their sexual needs. Peopleshould endeavor to find love, trust, respect, and friendshipwith one another and not use sex as a weapon either of guiltor domination. Sex should be limited in the effect it has on
the rest of a human beings life.


SIGNIFICANT DISSIMILARITY: The condition that exists whentwo thoughts are sufficiently different to prevent theircoming in contact with one another. The brain can clearly inthe case of trauma and strong emotion impose a condition ofsignificant dissimilarity on thoughts that would otherwise
make contact.


SIN, ORIGINAL: No one seems to be quite sure what originalsin was all about. Some think it was about clothes. Somethink it was about obedience, no one is quite sure what the
fruit thing had to do with anything. Well, the serpent is generally identified as the same asSatan. Satan when translated from the Hebrew is rendered aseither the accuser or the angry one. The tree is quiteclearly the tree of Knowledge of good and evil. So theAccuser seduces Eve into trying the fruit of the tree ofknowledge of good and evil. Knowledge of Good and Evil isjudgement. What is the fruit of judgement? What do peopleget out of judging one another. A sense of superiority,selfrighteousness, shame when they judge themselves as beingwanting. What does the fruit do to Adam and Eve, teachesthem shame at being nude and they clothe themselves in
figleaves. This then is what it is all about. Judgement. Why is this such a terrible sin? Evil. In order tobelieve in evil, you must believe that Evil came fromsomewhere. If evil came from somewhere and there is one Godwho is the source of all things then he must also be thesource of evil. If he is the source of evil, then he must beevil. So goes the logic of Satan's argument. So does Satanuse original sin to separate man from God. Who is Man tojudge God his Maker? This is why this is such a terribleunhappy sin. It is potentially the ultimate sin against God.In addition it is spiritual suicide for man. How can man notbe evil if his maker is evil. Can good come from an evilsource? Man is not meant to be the judge of such things.Let him concern himself with the affairs of the world and
leave the judgement of good and evil in the hands of God. How does original sin make life upon the earth a sourceof misery and unhappiness? This you can see every day. Forthe gentle soul, working in a garden is a source of joy andcontentment. The harmony of nature, nurturing growth,reaping the fruits of the soil. These are rich wonders andsource of contentment. For the soul which turns easily tocondemnation, this is sweaty unhappy toil, labor for meagrereward. Judgement sours the joys of living. Those whocondemn, condemn themselves to lives of unhappinesscondemning all the natural joys of life, rather than enjoyinglife. For the farmer baling hay, there is the rich feel ofmuscles moving under the sun, wind in the face the happyexhaustion of a healthy body doing what it was me ant for. Adeep natural joy in life. For the judgemental soul there isbitter salty sweat in the eyes and the spectre of all thoseacres of toil before all the hay is bailed. For the mother,who delights in her children there is the joy of doing thingsfor those she loves. The anticipation of their faces inevery task she undertakes, the reward of getting what shedesires, the health and well being of those she loves, inreturn for her efforts. For the woman who counts every shirtto iron, every diaper to wash, every small task as amountain. There is constant misery, unrewarded toil. So,this negative judgement which teaches us to condemn, this'gift' of Satan sours every joy of life for all of us. Allof us at one time or another fall prey to its traps. We alsoall know the joy of life from time to time as well. All ofus have fallen, we all can learn to enjoy life more if we say'Get thee behind me Satan' and concentrate more of the joys
of life. How does original sin keep us from heaven? What kind ofperson can live in heaven? Will the person who is alwaysfinding fault with other people and delighting in puttingother people down fit into heaven? Is heaven a place whereall the selfrighteous people go and sit around and laughevery time someone they didn't like on earth gets his or hersfrom some demon? Isn't that kind of behavior a major part ofwhat makes life on earth sometimes seem like hell? If youare going to be close enough to watch what demons do, you areprobably in hell. Heaven can only accept souls who haveforgiven others. Anything else would make it into somethingother than heaven. By really and truly forgiving, byrefusing to bring the fruits of the tree of knowledge of goodand evil through the curtain of death to the next life, yourefuse original sin and make yourself free to enter heaven.Forgiveness, love and concern for your neighbors, the trueimitation of Jesus is literally the road to heaven. Nothingelse makes sense. I know that I am at fault in this, andthat my forgiveness of others is not perfect. My hope is inthe Lord Jesus Christ, that in his grace, I may achieve thatwhich I could never achieve alone and become capable ofdwelling in Heaven. I pray that all mankind may share inthat hope and salvation. This then is the Truth about
original sin.


SIMILARITY, PRINCIPLE OF: In modern occult theory, theprinciple that describes the process of sorting of thought inthe human brain, and the proximity of two spiritual (tachyon)energy patterns. Work done on various animals to locate thecenter of memory in the brain demonstrated tha memory appearsto be holographic. I.E. distributed throughout the brain andnot located in one place. Holographs sort on the basis ofsimilarity, I.e. where two ideas or thought are similar, theycontact one another, and thus the mind works. A red dress toa red flower to a red robin to a hawk, etc. Each thoughtcontacting another on the basis of some similarity betweenthe thoughts. According to his principle, thought and memoryactually exist outside the brain, as patterns of energy. Thebrain sorts through these thoughts on the basis of similarityto chemical patterns in the brain left by previous thoughts(memories). Because of this process it is possible by thecombination of two patterns to approximate a third pattern,(intuition). The flexibility and receptivity of the braindetermine the breadth and reach of intuition that it iscapable of. See also Conversion, Circumtemporal Causality,
Significant dissimilarity.


SLAVERY, AMERICAN: The nature of slavery in america variedwith the cultural origins of the people using slavery as anintegral part of their economies. Throughout the americas,the spanish, french and americans kept slaves as cheap laboron plantations. In the spanish and french colonies this didnot result in the development of racism as an integral partof the culture that it produced in the anglo-saxon derivedcultures on the north american continent. Such a differencemust in some way originate in a cultural difference between
the slave keeping peoples involved. The difference here lies in two areas. Differences in thecultures between basically romance cultures of france andspain and the essentially germanic culture of england, andthe difference in the colonial system of these peoplesitself. Among the romance cultures, slavery had remained asan accepted fact of life since roman times. THe spanishstill had galley slaves, and the french nobility could rapetorture and maim any peasant on their lands because it wastheir divine right to do so. There was no practicaldifference between the status of a black slave on aplantation in the french colonies and a peasant in francebefore the french revolution. The spanish were equally inthe habit of raping and torturing their citizens with casualregularity frequently as in the inquisition with fullreligious sanction. Neither culture required any specialjustification to remove the rights of human beings and makethem into slaves. Such slavery under a variety of names was
an integral and accepted part of their culture already. In england, a number of compromises between the differentstrata of society had reinforced the basic differencesbetween the primitive tribal germanic traditions ofindividual rights and those of roman and medieval society toproduce the assumption of basic human rights. This culturaldifference between the romance cultures of france and spain,and the germanic culture of england was further modified bythe differences of their colonial systems. The Spanish andFrench colonies were formed by members of the nobility andtraditional establishment. They were kept under a relativelytight rein by their native governments. The english colonieswere groups of religious and other persecuted minorities whofled europe to north america seeking greater freedom fortheir own beliefs. This forced them to develop a rational ofpersonnel freedom to justify their rebellion against
authority in Europe. It is here, in the doctrine of human rights that thedifferences in attitude towards black slaves originatedbetween the spanish, french, and english colonies. Thespanish and french had no need of a special justification formaking blacks into slaves. The english colonies found acontradiction between the idea of slavery and the growingdoctrine of individual rights. A contradiction which made itdifficult for them to accept slavery. They could not get ridof it, because it was already an established part of theeconomy of the southern colonies. On the other hand theycould not easily live with the idea of treating human beingslike animals. So, as human beings have done throughouthistory, they invented a rationalization, a convenient lie tojustify slavery in their colonies. This justification wasthe fiction that africans were not really human beings atall. The more important the idea of human rights became tothe colonies, the more entrenched this lie became. Until theidea that blacks were not human became an integral andinherent part of the culture of the colonies where slaveryexisted. Without this lie or rationalization, it wasimpossible to reconcile slavery and a political doctrinebased on human rights and dignity. In this contradiction,rationalization, and lie, are the origins of racism in the
USA. A paralel development of racism and racist doctrine didnot develop in spanish and french colonies or in spain andfrance, because no such lie or rationalization was necessaryfor the existence of slavery there. For this reason, the USAhas one of the most racist cultural inheritances in theworld. While racism and racist doctrines exist in virtuallyevery culture and nation throughout history in the world, thedegree and standards by which such things were understood andpracticed is different for every place and time. It isimportant to understand that there is no universalinternational standard of racism. Racism does not have anycommon standard with the nations of the world, as for examplescience and mathematics do, because quite simply, it is notscientific or based in science. It has its origins entirely
in economic necessity and emotional bias. While the study of slavery in the americas is useful inunderstanding the origins of racism in the USA, it raisesanother question. A religious question. How could a goodand loving God allow something as evil as slavery to occur.In answering such questions, there are two approaches. Thefirst approach assumes that man has the right to judge theactions of God by his own standards, as though God were aman. Since a man who buys, sells and keeps slaves can beconsidered evil, then a God who allows such things must alsobe considered evil. This is the doctrine of original sin, asintroduced to man in the garden of eden. See SIN, ORIGINAL.If one is not to judge and condemn God, then it is necessaryto assume that God knew what He was doing and had His reasonsfor what He allowed to happen. From this the questionbecomes 'why?'. In order to speculate on why, the questionbecomes 'What is different between the world as it is and asit might have been if there had been no slavery in theamericas?'. The answer that immediately comes to mind isthat there would be no black people in the americas withoutthe slave trade. Today black people are the largest and mostvocal minority in the USA, and the USA is the largest andmost powerful nation in the history of the world. Withoutthe slave trade and the institution of black slavery in theamericas, the black people of africa would have absolutely novoice in the actions of the USA. Would there have been aninternational outcry against Apartheid in South Africa ifthere were no blacks in the USA? Would a black man havebeaten the nazi representive in track in the 1939 olympicswithout black people in the USA. How different is the worldtoday because the slave trade existed. Can those differencesjustify the slave trade and slavery in the eyes of God? Only
God knows. However, God has done things like this before. He movedHis chosen people to Egypt where they were slaves for 400years before He sent Moses to free them. Did he similarlychoose from the african nations a people to represent theirpeople in america today? If such was his decision, could he
have done it another way? There has never been a time in the history of the americasthat natives of africa have been standing on the dockswaiting to emigrate to the US. The culture, communications,and transportation systems that allowed for the massimmigrations of people from china, russia, and most otherpeople of the world have not existed in africa. It isdoubtful that God could have brought black people to theamericas without the slave trade, or some sort of miracle.Such a miracle would have probably interfered with the freewill of the people involved. God has generally throughoutrespected the free will of mankind above all other
considerations. This is all speculation of course, but it is possible thatblack americans are one of the most promising parts of thepeople of the USA, a promise that is yet largely to be
fulfilled. How does God feel about the relationships of a people thathave been held as slaves and a people who held them asslaves? Is he the 'vengeful god of the Old Testament', aneye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, or is he theforgiving God of the New Testament, counseling turning theother cheek. There is guidance for that in the Bible,Deuteronomy 23.7 "You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he isyour brother; you shall not abhor an Egyptian, because youwere a sojourner in his land." In other words, egyptians are
considered as being in the same class as kinfolk. If you consider that the jews and egyptians lived in oneland for centuries, there is little doubt that they werekinfolk. Blood kin, just as white and black in america areblood kin today. White man cannot kill black man in america,black man cannot kill white man in america without incurringthe blood guilt of kinslaying. Just as what passed betweenthe egyptians and the jews could not be made bettery by acontinueing hatred of the exmaster by the exslave, nothinggood can come of continued hatred in america between black
and white. The bible is clear on this point at least.


SNIPER SYSTEM: One of the more interesting hobbies is thelong distance rifle firing that is becoming a fairlywidespread sport in the US. Caliber .50 rifles with highquality scopes can be sighted in at distances of 3 kilometersor more with amazi ng accuracy. Such rifles were used in Namfor sniper rifles and the sport is a civilian version ofthis. Get a club going where you all own and practice thissport, and build some high observation towers on your land.Hopefully with neighbors abou t a kilometer away with similartowers. The towers can serve a number of purposes, one ofwhich would be an observation platform with a mount for yourlong range system. In the event that your neighbors werebeing attacked by neobarbarians, you would climb up into yourtower and start picking them off from a kilometer or so awaywhile your neighbor just closed up his house and waited for
the all clear. In the event that you were the one attacked, yourneighbors would return the favor. Very few attacks would beeffective against this sort of defense if five or sixneighbors had homes and towers situated in such a way as to
provide mutual supporting fires.


SORREL: Rumex acetosa, R. scutatus. An ancient green grownsince Roman times highly nutritious, and attributed powers asa medicinal plant in roman times. It is also perrenial.Lets see, food, medicine, and perrenial. Continuousproduction of food , a strongly flavored green makes a soup
of excellent quality. Definitely a plant for my garden.


SPECIATION: Herein lies one of the major points of conflictbetween the creationists and the evolutionists. Creationistslike to argue that if evolution were actually real, then itwould be happening today and new species would be evolvingconstantly around us. I am not quite sure why this argumentsounds convincing. Evolution being a slow and gradualprocess, you would not recognize a new species as a newspecies if it came up and kicked you in the family jewels.Because, it would have been evolving into its present stageof evolution for much longer than you have been alive.Evolution does not have new species leaping out from thecabbage patch when Charles Darwin waves his wand. Theprocess of speciation is best visualized as the growth of atree. Each line of descent from a common ancestor is abranch on the tree. Some of these branches diverge rapidlyand widely, others grow paralel to one another for a longtime, and when by growth or pressure from an outside forcethey are forced back together, the bark rubs away and theymay grow together again. The distance between the branchesis equivalent to the measured change in the genetic materialbetween the branches in the family tree. At some point ofdistance between the two branches, they diverge so far apartthat if two members of different branches were to meet andmate, they would be unable to have children. At this pointthey are considered to be separate species. This is in factthe scientific definition of separate species. Two speciesare considered to be separate when members are mutuallysterile. However, evolution is slow. For hundreds ofthousands of years, both species would have members who mightmate and be sterile, while two others might have childrentogether finally, some might mate, but their children mightnot form perfectly and might lose themselves the ability tohave children. That is their seed would be sterile. Duringthis period, if forced to coexist and share the same habitat,they would meet and grow together into a single branch likethe two branches of our tree which rubbed together. Memberswho mating was sterile, and those whose offspring weresterile would suffer a reproductive handicap and probablybecome a minor fraction of the species or be eliminatedaltogether. This is the way that evolution works. A stepfurther on, all matings between the two branches might besterile, at this point it would be impossible to join themback into one branch again , and a new species could be
considered to have developed. This kind of speciation is indeed happening in the worldall around us. New species are indeed evolving. Mules, theoffspring of horses and donkeys are sterile and unable toreproduce themselves. The two branches, horses and donkeyshave grown just far enough apart that they cannot berejoined. This is also true of lions and tigers which whenmated produce sterile offspring. Their branches are close,but not close enough. Chimpanzees and gorillas, however aresufficiently far apart that they cannot mate and produceoffspring. Their branches are even farther apart. Siberiantigers, and indian tigers can mate and produce offspringwhich can also mate and produce offspring, their branches areso close together that they are still one species. A millionyears from now if their descendants still exist, this mightnot be true. So you see, evolution is clearly going on all
the time all around us. The major reason some Christians attack evolution hasnothing to do with God, Christianity, or the bible. Thebitterness here comes entirely from the fact that evolutionhas been used since it was first proposed to puncture thesensitive and inflated egos of priests. At the time it waspublished, a bible was published by the Church of Englandgiving the exact date of creation and other significant datesin the bible as calculated by the scholars of the Church.Naturally, they expected these all too human conclusions andcalculations to be accepted as the word of God by thefaithful. The thing about it is that such calculations andinterpretations are not the word of God, and personally, Iwouldn't put it past God to have taken 4 billion years tocreate mankind using evolution, just so people could puncturea few inflated egos. Historically, he is not to fond of
priests who set themselves up to be him. Naturally, this heinous crime was unforgivable, andevolution has never been forgiven by certain unfortunatebranches of the christian church. Having faith in God'sinfinite mercy, I expect that he will forgive them for this,even if they have failed to forgive others. The thing thatbothers me about creationism is that some people think thatyou cannot be a christian unless you accept creationism.This is fanaticism, not faith. To tell the difference, askyourself two questions. Does this help you grow closer toGod? If yes, then it is faith. Does this help people findexcuses to condemn other people? If yes, then it isfanaticism. Sometimes, the answer to both questions is yes.Faith and fanaticism are not mutually exclusive . In suchcases, it is useful to remember that Christ died to savepeople. He did not die spouting words of vengeance against
his persecutors.


SPEECH: Speech, especially the capacity for abstract speechand the communication of culture more than anything else setsmankind apart from the rest of life as we know it. Evidenceis that this is a relatively recent development. As nearlyas 300 ,000 years ago all of mankind is descended from onewoman. This woman may have been the original mutation fromwhich this ability derives. If you look at the probable lifestyle of our earliest ancestors, women and children, and oldmen stayed near the home or central camp from which menwandered on hunting and foraging expeditions. This made fora natural division of skills and tasks. In the home base,foraging, camp construction, childbirth, cooking, gatheringfuel, and a large number of other fairly complicated taskswere routinely performed. Men on the other hand were outthere doing things on which speed of reaction, reflexes,bursting physical strength, and eye to hand coordination werecritical to their survival. On the one hand at the camp theability to direct things with fairly abstract communicationswould have been useful and necessary, in the field with themen, the tendency to sit down and hold a conference aboutthat sabre toothed tiger over there would have been lessuseful. Most of the differences between men and women arebased entirely on one of two causes, a) sex appeal,or b)survival. Given the different environments in which the twosexes conducted the business of life it is logical to assumethat wom endeveloped the capacity for speech before men did.Ask any man in a bar who learned to talk first and after amoments bleary consideration, woman, will almost certainly behis answer. Humor aside for the moment. This has majorconsequences for the study of human culture and history. Ifwomen learned to speak first, they then were the ones tofirst invent culture, history, medicine (herbalism), andreligion. The ability to communicat knowledge through wordswould have made women seem magical and terrible to early man.(I know, she still seems magical and terrible, only it wouldhave been more so back then). She could have chosen whowould live and who would die. Men too brutal, or with reallyserious dandruff problems, could have been fed the wrongherbs in their gruel, and scratch one serious nuisance fromthe woman's life style. Men might have been able to connectactor with action, but the means based on learning, andspeech would have been mysterious and magical. More and moretoday, ancient texts are, on the basis of context, beingattributed to women. Some say Genesis was written by a womanabout a female, a womanly goddess, not a god. Logically it
would seem that such theories may in fact be true. There is even evidence today that woman developed hercapacity for speech before man. Common intelligence testsshow distinct masculine and feminine profiles. Men scorehigher in math and science, women score higher in bothwritten and verbal l anguage skills. This suggests thatwhile man has acquired language he has not yet closed the gap
that originally existed between him and woman. You could say that men are the first pets that women everkept. Having been dumb animals for possibly thousands ofyears while women could talk, we must have seemed to womenvery much as pets seem to us today. Indeed some woman mayhave kept the first pet much as she did her husband. Lookingat some wolf cub. She may have said, if I can train this bigape over here, maybe I can train this wolf as well.Hopefully it won't drink as umch. In this probably lies thebeginning of humanities habit of keeping pets. By the way,Old Grog taught the dog to drink shortly thereafter. I meanus dumb animals have to stick together. I brought this up toa lady of my acquaintance recently at a party. Saying thatwomen expect too much of us men. Since we were originallymore or less pets. She said "Well at least I expect you tofind the litter box." I said I could manage that. Wouldn'tyou know it though, the next day she had me and her husbandout building planters for her flower gden in the hot sun.
Things never change. See also SURVIVAL.

SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION: Spiritual beings exist under conditionsof constant competition just as biological beings do. Theystruggle to maintain their own existences in the face of thiscompetition just as animals do. They come in a wide varietyof complexity and power as great as the variety betweenviruses and whales at least. Some are promankind possessinga symbiotic existence with him (angels), others are parasitic(demons), still others are basically neutral towards mankind.A constant spiritual struggle exists bewteen these spiritsfor control of life, because life can be caused to run indifferent patterns and feed energy to different members ofthis ecology. Eventually, those spirits which aid life andmaintain it in health are bound to win out over those whichcripple it and devour its energy without giving in return,thus the triumph of good over evil is eventually assured, butlike all natural processes, it takes a lot of time from the
human viewpoint.


SPIRITUAL SOFTWARE: There is a near perfect analogy betweencomputers and their software and biological life andspiritual patterns. See Conversion Principle of, Similarity,Principle of. Where it is clearly understood that spiritualbeings exist independent of organic life and influence thebahavior of that organic life, it becomes clear that it is nomore proper to condemn a man foe doing evil than it is tocondemn a computer for messing up when it has softwareproblems. It would be better to condemn the spirit thatmoved the man to do evil, and to pray for the salvation ofthe man. Condemning him creates a bond of similarity betweenhim and evil in your mind, once created it will strengthenhis contact with bad or evil spirits, and may even createevil where none existed before. Thus do condemnatory people
do the work of Satan. See also Original Sin.

STORAGE: See food storage, energy storage.


SOUTH SIDE: The south side of the house gets most exposureto the sun in the northern hemisphere. It is the location
for the windows that provide passive solar heating.


SURVIVAL: The first life is woman, in the sense that theearliest and most primitive forms of life possess the abilityto reproduce themselves. Males are an afterthought. Asystem that allows for the exchange of genes which allows formore rapid adaptation to a changing environment. In nature,all males partake to some extent of the nature of drones.Women do most of the food gathering, they bear the children.They are more closely concerned in the support and nurturingof the offspring. Women could almost maintain the human racewithout men. In primitive societies 70% or more of the foodis gathered by the women. Men really do not even manage tosupport themselves. They depend on women for sustenance.Except for fifteen minutes of sweat every year or so, womencould and have maintained the survival of the species withoutthe benefit of men. Obviously, the benefits of having menare greater than the work of supporting them. Otherwise wewould have a very different world. Man serves as a throwawayitem. He takes the dangerous jobs because he is naturallymore disposable than woman is. He fights the animals thatcome into the cave at night. He fights the other men whosteal his family's food or threaten their survival. He hasmade himself so useful that women feel insecure without oneof the big dumb one's hanging around to help out. Possibly,he is less insecure without women, because he is as likely todie protecting a woman as he is in the wilderness alone . Sohaving a woman around does not really help him survive. Heis a bonus to her survival. So she works hard to feed himand keep him around for those times when she needs him, likeduring pregnancy and childbirth. So in primitive (natural)societies the woman works like a dog to keep her man. Eventhough, in strict economic terms she could make it on her
own. These things may seem stupid and primitive to modern intellectual men and women. But happiness is a feeling, and it probably comes most easily to those who are doing what their feelings tell them to. A woman may not need a man to make it in the world, but it probably helps her feel good in a natural simple way to have one around to take care of. All logic and liberation and proud and grand designs do not
substitute for doing what comes naturally.

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TEA: Camellia Sinensis. An iffy plant for my locationlisted as growing in zones 8 to 10, I am at the northern edgeof its range. On the other hand, I am on a south facingslope. It sounds like a perfect plant for the home, lovelydark green foliage, sweet fragrance, flowers in the fall, andof course great for that evening cup of tea. Certainly I
shall have to give it a try. See hedges.


TECHNOLOGY: Technology is becoming magic. It is starting to do things that most of mankind does not understand. Not in any mysterious sense, but in the sense that people use it without understanding how it works. In a very real sense, it is magic to them, and the people who create it are magicians. Every day I see things that were science fiction when I was a child. The rate of change is increasing. Soon, computers will be able to both talk and understand spoken words. Then what need to be able to read. Ask the computer a question, it will give you the answer. Will reading be considered a primitive unnecessary skill in the future world, as a classical education is considered somehow dated and useless today. If this happens, what will happen to my america when a small elite group can build and create new technology, and everyone else is just a operator/user. Will it still be the land of equality, freedom of conscience, and justice for all (we try, we don't always succeed), that I have spent my life serving. Or will hackers and engineers become the shaman of a world where they work miracles and the rest of the world holds them in
superstitious awe. I must be getting old.


TEN COMMANDMENTS: You know people are really hung up aboutsex. It is a lot more important to them than it is to God.People really like to make it much more important, evan as asin than it really is. The arrogant way in which theyinterpret the ten commandments is an example of this. Let'stake a staement like 'missing church is a worse sin thancommitting adultery'. True or false. Make up your mind and
then read the rest of this. 1. Thou shalt have no other Gods besides me. This one isclear. God says deal only with him. This is important,because if you begin to deal with other Gods, you might getthem confused with him, think they are in the same class.Lose your fai th in his ability to help you. Losing faith is
a bad bad scene. 2. Thou shall not make graven images. Same as above.
Only dealing with action instead of theory. 3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God invain. Here is the one people have a problem with. What doessaying shit, cunt, fuck, piss, etc have to do with God. Ihave one for you, what does saying that stuff have to do withtaking th e name of God in vain. I don't worship shit antpiss, I don't know about you. So, it's not about cussing.It is about taking the lord's name in vain. Which is a formof cussing. What happens if you take the lord's name invain. You use it every day, you don't mean anything by it.You don't mean anything by it. Oh, it becomes meaninglessfor you. If it is meaningless to you, how can you believethat anything will happen when you need to use it. Loss offaith. Keep sacred the name of the lord. Don't make the
symbols by which you know him meaningless in your heart. 4. Keep holy the sabbath. If you take one day a week anddevote it to remembering how important God is in your life,even if you think it is stupid and you need to monitor thestock market, you still build that bridge in your heartbetween Him a nd you. Even when you are torn by the world,taking the time to remind yourself of how important God is
will help you reach each other when you need him. These are the first four commandments because they tellyou how to maintain a relationship with God. The other sixare about relatiionships with people. Which is moreimportant, a sin againt God or a sin against a man. Missingchurch is a sin a gainst God. Adultery is a sin against yourpartner. Your partner is going to make that sin prettydreadful for you if you get caught, and that is why it isblown all out of proportion and generally considered moreimportant than a sin against God. It is a normal thing forpeople to lose their perspective and place the affairs of theworld above those of heaven. Someone who really believes inGod however must recognize the real importance of the firstfour commandments. This life is only for a little while.
God is for eternity.


THEORY: Is a good servant and a poor master. Like othertools, a good theory should only be used as it is used best.Theories are never perfect. They are the best description ofthe universe we can make based on our current knowledge.They are useful and are considered to be validated when theyincorporate our current knowledge in a coherent body ofknolwedge, and allow us to make successful predictions inareas covered by the theory. Newtons three lawas of motionare still good sound pri nciples when applied in the areasthat they cover successfully. In other areas, they have beenproven to be false. This is normally done gradually as ourknowledge expands. Some item in a theory is modified toreflect new knowledge that we happene d upon by accident.Herein lies the rub. Theories tell us what is likely towork, they also indicate what is not likey to work. Thus wedirect our investiations as guided by theories that wepossess. They become our masters telling us what to try andwhat not to try. If the theory is wrong, in an area where itsuggests that something cannot be done, and we never trybecause the theory tells us that it cannot be done. Webecome incapable of doing something only because we believethat it is impossible. We are chained by our own beliefs.On the other hand if a theory suggests that something ispossible where previously we had not dreamed ofpossibilities. Then theory frees us and is a good servant.Let us be a little more restrained about saying "ImpossibleThat's All'. A little more open to the strangeness ofcreation. Let us peek a little more closely at impossiblethings once in a while to just check out if old man theory isplaying with us again. We will be wiser for it.


THOR: There is a powerful symbolism in the deaths of the old viking gods. Not in the fact of their deaths though that is powerful enough, rather in the nature of their deaths. Thor is slain in the end by jortmungandir, the world girdling serpent. Thor is the archetypical berserker, a terrible if unthinking fighter. A simple man of powerful passions trustworthy because he was too simple to lie. He was the preferred god of the Old Gods. He was so much happier and less grim than Wodin was. His death by the serpent is symbolic. Serpents have always symbolized passion. He the ultimate passionate warrior was destroyed by the serpent/passion which engirdled the world. In the end, he
was destroyed by his own nature. Passion out of control.


TOWER: Lets face it, no son of Camelot can retire to acountry farm without some sort of tower. I want a nicemedieval looking tower rising a hundred feet or so into theair on my land, to fly banners from and give it a storybookcastle look. I realize that it is probably a waste of moneypragmatically speaking, except can something that makes youhappy really be considered a waste. In addition, such atower would be a good place for a windmill, a shortwaveantenna, a neighborhood observation post, and a place forraising homing pigeons. Also a good place for installing aweather station. I mean, with a little thought, you couldmake it worth your while to have a tower on your land. Justfiguring how to build it, and the optimum mix of functions is
the trick.


TOWNS: Within an hours drive. Shreveport LA, Texarkana (Bastion de la Frontier, Incipient Shire of), Marshall TX, Longview TX, Atlanta TX, Mt Pleasant TX, Tyler TX (Rosenfeld Incipient shire of,), Minden LA (Ardanroe, shire of), names
in parenthesis are SCA branches.
 TRUTH: It is theoretically impossible to tell the truth.Language being created by mankind, is not perfect, thereforeany statement made in language is bound to be imperfect,subject to error. Thus no statement can be completely true.The more li mited the definitions of terms used, the stricterthe subject area, and the greater the knowledge of thesubject area, the closer to truth it is possible to come.Perfect truth however is unattainable. In mathematics, it ispossible to come close t o true statements because the termsare defined in relation to an imaginary totally manmadeuniverse of numbers. Thus, since mathematics is essentiallyunrelated to reality and totally imaginary. Mathematicalstatements may be considered as true so long as they are notapplied to reality. Once applied to reality, errorinevitably creeps in. The fact that it is impossible to makea statement that is completely true does not relieve a man oftrying to make his statements as true as possible. Fornormal day to day operations, this approximation of truth isgood enough. Honesty lies not inalways telling the truth,which is impossible, but in always trying as hard as possible
to tell the truth.

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UNSANITY: Modern psychiatry tells us that positive reinforcement is more powerful than negative reinforcement. That is to say that we are likely to do what feels good even if we are going to be punished for it. Pleasant memories last longer than unpleasant ones. As we grow older, the good old days just get golder. This is one of the foundations of the human thinking process and it is the basis for a large percentage of the errors and biases that show up in normal human behavior. One of the ost important aspects of this positive reinforcement thing is in how we evaluate our own opinions on things. Think about it. We are more impressed when we are right than when we are wrong. Whenever we find a fact that agrees with our biases we store it away. When we encounter a fact that disagrees with our opinions, we tend to forget it. This is more or less true for different kinds of people. Positive reinforcement is still positive for curious people who rejoice in new knowledge for its own sake. They are more likely to store away all facts. Even if they disagree with previous opinion because the joy in acquiring new knowledge provides the posite reinforcement that would be lacking because the fact that the idea did not agree with our own opinions. Of course, they suffer for it in human company. Their opinions are always changing which makes them seem wishywashy. People who do not rejoice in the acquisition of new knowledge for its own sake are less likely to store away facts which disagree with their other opinions. They re more likely to store away only those facts which are fueled by that positive reinforcement "Oh Yes, this shows that I am RIGHT. Over weeks, months and years, this adds up to a great store of information which agrees with them and a much smaller store which disagrees with them. Such people are firm minded and strong to those who agree with them and stubborn and asinine to those who don't. At least half the world likes them, better than being wishywashy. Most biases, racial, religious, personal, etc. are based on this natural and common mechanism. I guess you would think that something which inclines us to have wrong opinions would be contra survival, and not passed on to future generations. Not so. It works like this. If you remember the good more strongly than the bad, then you are more likely to get up and do something. If you remember the bad better than the good, you are more likely to sit around and fail to do something. In the vast majority of reallife situations, someone who trys always comes out ahead of someone who fails to try. So positive reinforcement has to be stronger than negative reinforcement. Just to get people to keep on trying. The moral of this, I guess, is that you have to be a little crazy to deal with life.

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VENTILATION: Air maintenance is of great importance. Humidity, cleanliness, and fresh air. Fresh air should be brought in via heat exchangers ideally. Thus refreshing the air without destroying the houses energy balance in relation to its environment. Ionizing air cleaners should be used both to clean and ionize the air. Humidity content in modern houses is unhealthy, generally too dry. It kills house plants and gives people various respiratory ailments. Humidity should be easier to maintain in a passively heated and cooled home. Nonetheless, some sort of humidity control would be useful.

VIETNAM: A lot of people still think that Vietnam was a bad war, a lost war, a disgrace, unjustified. I don't see it that was. Recently, the iron curtain collapsed and half of europe was freed. This did not happen by accident. It happened because of the economic collapse of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union did not collapse because communism was expanding through the world without existence. It collapsed because every time someone tried to export communism it was met with stiff resistance. That stiff resistance meant stiff expense, high cost, economic strain. It was that economic strain that tore down the iron curtain. The struggle was an economic one, the war was mostly a cold war. The longest single battle in that war was Vietnam. It placed the greatest strain on the two competing economies and nations. Eventually, one nation disengaged from that battle, but the cost of that victory destroyed the economy of the of the nation. Without Vietnam and the stiff resistance put up by American men and women in Vietnam, the iron curtain would still be standing today. To those peoplw who say that vietnam was a bad war, a lost war, a disgrace, and unjustified, I have this to say. All war is bad, in this Vietnam was no different than any other war. A lost war, Vietnam was never its own war, it was only a part of a larger struggle, a struggle that it effectively won. A disgrace, look at the people who danced on the berlin wall. There is the pride of Vietnam, without nam, that would never have happened, and there is its justification. That moment when the whole world rejoiced was purchased for mankind by the brave men and women who fought and who died in Nam. Every person who served in Nam should look at that and say. That is mine, I did that. My sacrifice meant something. All of mankind is in my debt. Even if it is never publicly admitted. Without meand my friends who fought there the Iron curtain would still stand. Aevery American family who lost members in Nam should remember that momentous celebration and understand that without their loss, that would not have happened. Let it be admitted that there was meaning in Nam, and that it did accomplish some good. I watched that celebration with awe, it was something I had never imagined. Seeing it, I knew that it could not have happened without the Nam.

VIOLENCE: I have always tended towards nonviolence. I remember arguing with my little brother about the superiority of nonviolence to violence, and that the only way to teach people about nonviolence was by being truly nonviolent yourself. For if you use violence against violent people, they will never even think there might be an alternative. If you oppose them nonviolently they are bound to at least wonder what was so important that you were willing to die for it rather than resorting to violence. Even as I write it the strength of the argument strikes home to me. In it's way it is still true. The problem is that I am no longer sure that most of the human race can be considered members of an intelligent species. For the most part, they meet and deal with one another on the same basis that lions challenge one another in the jungle. In their minds, an attempt to settle a dispute by reason rather than meeting force with force is not an honest attempt to achieve fairness, rather it is an admission of weakness, and even an attempt to trick the stronger man out of what is his by right of strength. In view of this, if a man threatens you in the manner of a lion, and endangers your home and family in the manner of a lion, it cannot be more of a crime to kill him, than it would be to kill a lion in the same circumstances. Thus, I must consider study of the arts of war to be one of the necessary studies for a man, and their application to the design of any home a necessary precaution against the unreasonableness of mankind. On the other hand, I am a christian, and I have seen some special things happen to violent men in the presence of christian men. I have seen christians walk into situations where others would have been slain and and emerge without violent word or deed. I know that there is a spiritual art to violent situations and that they may be mastered by superior spiritual force. Unfortunately, I am not that saintly a man. I cannot help but attribute this to my own weakness, for I have found in my studies that I am that sort of man who can love the sword for its sharpness and the arrow for its flight, even as Boromir of Minas Tirith. See also defense. Violence can be considered as an extension of communications theory. Some people live in a simple world where fear is the governing factor. For them, the attempt to settle something by talking about it is a sign of fear. The first party to want to talk is obviously the weaker party. To communicate with them successfully, it is necessary to first talk to them in the language that they understand. Arguments of physical force serve the purpose here. Inability to speak with them in a language that they understand will result in misunderstanding and failed negotiations as will trying to negotiate through any language barrier without attempting to communicate in the other sides language. Finally, because of the tendency for nonviolent people to consider themselves on a higher moral plane than violent people. It can be considered insulting to argue from that plane down to an opponent who argues violently. In thise sense, sometimes a punch in the nose is more polite than a highfaluting argument.

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WATER ROOFS: This is one of the cleverer and more useful of modern passive environmental building methods. A roof of water serves to dissipate heat during the day by evaporating and thus carrying heat away from the home, during the winter and at night the home is warmed by heat absorbed by the water and radiated or spread by convection to the home. It thus works smoothly and naturally with no energy expenditure to create a balanced and livable temperature all year around. Successful houses of this kind have been built in different parts of the country. One of the original structures of this kind was originated by a college proffessor I believe. A recommendation in my opinion. My objections to this come from the way it is done more than anything else. Most such homes are made with water roofs where the water is stored in things like thick plastic bags. Such bags are bound to become messy problems after awhile. If you treat them with a powerful enough poison to keep algae from growing there for the twenty or thirty years of an estimated homes lifespan, who wants to get close to the water. If you don't then you will have a dark dank corner growing with only God knows white while you ignore it for years. Both situations strike me intuitievely as a recipe for disaster. My inclination would be to go ahead and have a pond on my roof if I were to have a water roof. Leave it open to the sun. Put in some plants, a few fish. Have thick glass as a ceiling on at least one room of my house so I could lounge back in a recliner and watch the fish do their thing. Maybe even raise some catfish there, so I turn my air conditioner/heater into a food source as well. At least this way, I know that I would be paying attention to the thing and it wouldn't catch me some dark night with a stinky and unpleasant suprise. Overall water roofs are a good idea, I just don't think that you can just install one and ignore it and expect to get away with it.

WEATHER: Monitoring the weather and keeping records is one of the important things that a home gardener does. Every microclimate is different and weather predictions for a gien county might not dovetail with your actual weather conditions. So a personal weather station is one ofthose things that an intelligent person will install in his land. More than that, like a short wave radio, it gives you an in when it comes to interesting children in science, you can show them how meterology works and is important to you in your own home weather system. See also Tower.

WELL: See food storage.

WEST SIDE: The west side of the house is the part of the house that gets the most heat during the day. It gets heated up by the sun in the afternoon and evening. This is inconvenient if you are heating and cooling with electricity. It is very convenient if you are using solar power. You build your solar collector with a southwest facing to get the maximum heat storage before the sun sets, this allows you to pump your hot water storage up just before the end of the day to ensure that you have hot water for a bath in the morning. In addition, heat that is taken and stored in a hot water tank is heat that is not applied to heating up your house. Your solar collector by its nature moves heat from where it is not wanted to where it is. There is only so much heat strinking the house. The more you use for mour energy needs, the less can reach your house to heat it up. In planning the house, the southwest area should be considered as a solar energy collecting and storage station.

WIND POWER LAND: The estimated wind power for my area is between 100 and 150 watts per square meter. This is less than annual available solar power. However this is an average. During the winter wind power exceeds solar power. Still, air is tricky and maps for the whole US are only wild guesses at actual conditions in any specific locale.WIND POWER: Wind power is intermittent, and thus unreliable for providing power timed for human convenience. On the other hand there are large numbers of things which need to be done that use mechanical power that are not time critical. Grain needs to be milled, compost ground, clothes washed, etc. Many of these things could be done at the convenience of the wind, the material to be worked on beingstored by the wind harnessing center, and the appropriate engine engaged to the wind mil for the work to be done when the wind blows, assuming that windpower was available a reasonable percentage of time during the year. The great disadvantage of this is it puts men at the beck and call of nature rather than viceversa. It would work well enoiugh for a quite family home were things were efficiently managed enough to deal with it, but it would have distinct disadvantages for industry. Of course, storing power generated by the wind and then using it as needed answers this, but it does so by making the system at least one step more complicated and therefore significantly more likely to break down. I still like hydrogen storage systems via electrolysis best for this kind of thing.

WIND POWERED REFRIGERATON: The key here would be to have a storage area like you do for solar heat. An insulated area filled with a storage medium which could be chilled to subzero temperatures. This could then be circulated through refrigerating coils to maintain coolth in a freezer. Air power is mechanical or electricity is made from air power, refrigerators are basically mechanical, pumps and compressors and fans driven by electric motors which convert electrical energy to mechanical energy. It is therefore entirely possibl to do the chilling and refrigeration with wind power. The question of feasibility is largely economic and must be based upon the same considerations as solar heating is. Cost of installation, and whether available natural energy, I.E. wind is sufficient to provide the needs of refrigeration and air conditionsing for the planned activity. There are infinite ramifications to such questions and many possible approaches. Providing a freezer by just freezing the ground and possibly a water reservoir around a chosen underground room is probably the least effective method. Using the intermittent power of the wind to chill a storage medium which does not freeze at 0 degrees and which is then pumped where you need it too accomplish coolingis probably the most effective method. This is primarily due to the fact that Ice in and of itself provides a form of insulation, and does not allow for creation of truly cold areas.

WINDOWS: In creating a properly solar heated home, the angle of the glass to the sun has a great deal to do with the amount of heat to pass the glass. Inearly morning the sun is lower, and windows more verticle are closer to perpendicular the optimum angle for sun penetration. As the day progresses, the sun gets higher and less sunlight makes it through perpendicular glass, as the light strikes at a more oblique or acute angle. This is an automatic control on solar energy absorption that could be used in designing for optimum energy savings. Especially for staying cool in summer. It does not really apply to the tube design as my intent was for the windows to more orless follow the curve of tube. It could be worked in however. On the other hand the curved design has the advantage that at almost any angle that the sun's rays strike the surface of the earth they will strike the glass at the optimum angle for penetration on one point on the curve. Another point is the fact that energy costs money, and it is easier to shade a window than to open one where none existed before. Therefore it is probably best to plan for enough window space to provide sufficient raw solar energy to effectively heat the home in the shortest day of the year. In order to be sure of doing so, providing sufficient window area for 150% of anticipated energy needs on said day should be about right. Window size should be designed to provide more heat than needed for winter cooling. External heat input can always be cut back by lowering shades. It connot be increased. Strainght double windows should still have an overhang to block the sun during the hottest period of the year when I know that I will have plenty of solar heat. Such an overhang should be calculated on the basis of the height of the sun at the noon hours of the day so that the sunlight will not enter the windows of the house but will strike the walls at their base to ensure that a path or walkway there will receive good sunlight to accomplish the healthful things that sunlight does to molds fungui etc.

WODIN: The grim doomridden all-father of the old Gods is not well known to modern man. Our sugar coated comic book image of him would be the cause of laughter if any old viking could be aware of it. He was neither so impotent nor so simplemindedly honest as comic books and fairy tail mythologists would make him. Indeed, he was the patron god of oath breakers. The berserkergang was called the frenzy of wodin, and those taken with it considered to be possessed by his spirit. His bodyguards were the most terrible warriors of the vikings, his servents ravens and wolves symbols of death and terror. In the end, he was slain by fafnir, the great wolf monster. He whose nature was so much of the wolf was slain by the wolf. Like Thor, in the end he was his own Bane. He was slain by the ungoverned nature of his won terrible strength. So, like men, the norse gods were in the end doomed by their own natures. This is a lesson be studied.

WOMEN: Flameshadow was out there in his bit on women at the beginning of his book. An unbiased analysis of the data involved demonstrates that women evolved the ability to talk before men did, and in fact it was probably a sex linked trait for several thousand years. The first woman to develop this ability was probably the 'eve' that modern science has shown existed about 300 thousand years ago.

WOMAN'S WORLD: You have probably heard the saying that it is a mans world. I have my doubts about that. Even if it is, it is worth looking back to when it was a Woman's World when women dominated science, religion, and culture, and pretty much ran the world the way they wanted. This period is probably only a few tens of thousands of years ago, and hints of what the world was like survive in ancient myths and religions. Some of the most interesting speculation in this area is based upon the old ritual of selecting a king for a year, allowing him free access to all the women for a year, and then killing him and selecting a new king. The method of selection was invariably based upon the new king defeating a challenge to physical combat. One description of a king has him tied up under a tree, a ravening maniac who tryed to kill anything which came close to him. This is very similar to the mating fight of a drone bee. The king fights, the drone flies, the drone impregnates the queen, the king impregnates all the available females. Only the strongest and the fastest male is allowed to pass his inheritance along to descendants. Suvh individuals in that one year might father tens, possible a hundred or more children. Clearly more than could be expected in a 'normal' nuclear marriage, giving his genes a major advantage in the competition for survival. While wrapped up in various mystical and religious myths about killing the king to renew the land, this is clearly a form of selective breeding, intended to breed a race of fighters, killers and warriors. Clearly, since the 'king' is only a drone, and serves no function but as a figurehead and walking sperm bank, this is a custom created by women for their own purposes. A facet of a society dominated by women and run on women's concerns. It is cruel, ruthless, and exceedingly logical in a biological sense. The fact that it looks for victory in stronger sons rather than in military exploits of the day even more clearly marks it as a womanly strategy. Looking back at this world, and considering the world of today, I find it difficult to believe that the world would necessarily be a kinder gentler place if it were run by women. It is also interesting to observe that this custom is part of the old celtic folklore, frequently cropping up in the Arthurian legends and other pagan survivals. It centers in Europe. Also the origin point of the white race. White people do not occur in significant numbers in any other part of the world. Albinism is not s survival trait, and many disadvantages are associated with a aple skin and blue eyes. Color blindness and blindness are more common in blue eyed people. The lack of tannin in the skin makes white people more vulnerable to injury from the sun. Altogether aside from consmetic advantages, i.e. blue eyes and blonde hair are pretty and a pale skin allows for a sexual flush, there seems to be no survival value to this particular genetic pattern. All other races of the world even those in the far north retained their darker skin, eyes, and hair. In addition, the blue eyes are a childlike feature. All babies have blue eyes. Such a feature would endear a savage warrior to a matriarch selecting breeding stock for future generations. Blonde hair is extremely unmasculine. In the males of most species of mammal, the hair is darker around the head. This is true of blondes in many cases who have red or brown beards and blonde hair. Again, such an artificial color would not have been selected normally. The rest of the human race has uniformly black hair in the adults of the species. Such hair might have been chosen by a matriarch because of its color, its shock value in combat (like fighting ghosts or the dead) or because it had become associated with a line of champion warriors. All in all, it seems likely that the white race is the result of selective breeding done by a woman dominated civilization in early Europe. Probably there was a great champion who was albino, and his descendants were also major champions, and a race of semi albinos with major variations of skin, eye and hair color came to exist over a period of several thousand years, started however by the early breeding experiments of women trying to improve the race based upon a literally prehistoric vision of what such improvement meant. It is also possible that a light skinned race developed and was imitated by an albino race specifically bred to that purpose. I would suspect such a race of having black hair and blue eyes with a pale skin. Still, the selection of blonde or light hair and blue eyes is a selection for immature or childlike traits, and runs opposite to the course women normally take in selecting amate, but is much the course that a matriarch might take in slecting breeding stock.

WORSHIP: God created the universe. He scattered galaxies in intergalactic space with the abandon that he scatters flowers in a field. What he has done is literally beyond the comprehension of mankind. To criticize a work of art is to criticize the artist. To walk into an art show and start putting down the art on display there is not just criticism of the art, it is an attack on the artist. To look about the universe and say this is evil, and this is evil, that is an attack on God. You cannot condemn part of the work of God as evil without implying that God himself is evil. Who taught you to say that? According to the bible it was Satan who taught mankind knowledge of good and evil. Maybe God was trying to tell people something when he put that in the bible. Understanding this as the nature of original sin, allows us to define three different types of worship. Pure worship, is worship without knowledge of good and evil. A childs innocent joy in creation, the primitive savages acceptance of the world with awe and wonder fear and joy, but without condemnation of parts of it as evil. This is worship without original sin. God loves a cheerful giver. Someone who worships with a pure heart. In this sense, many native americans never had original sin until white man came to america. Impure worship is that of man infected with original sin. God moves in mysterious ways, he says, I do not understand why so much of the univers that he made strikes me as being evil, but I will not condemn him. This loyalty is admirable, and is the basis of our modern religious systems. They embrace judgement of good and evil, but they refuse to condemn god as evil, though it is hard to explain how evil came from good. Certainly this is admirable, but I suspect that god prefers a purer and less judgemental joy in his creation. Satanism is that final fall, where man in judging the universe and finding it evil, finds fault in its creator and condemns God himself as evil. Rebelling against him, they worship satan the angry one, the accuser instead. This is a popular philosophic theme, and the basis of a couple of rock and roll songs. Who in their misery has not at least once railed against their maker. I wonder however at satanism. How can you hope for a perfect world from a spirit that does not even create, which only exists in order to move life to condemn and destroy other life. For all that I cannot fathom the depths of God's mind, I fathom Satan well enough to know that he is no answer. Therefor I will stand with god, and I will even try to avoid churchs which harp too much on judgement and not enough on joy and gratitude to god for the world that he has made. See also ORIGINAL SIN.

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YARDS: I do not like the idea of yards. Those vast expanses of unproductive grass do nothing for me compared to a vista of fruiting trees, bushes and flowers. Still I need one, for fighter practice. I figure about 30 x 30 feet to match the activities room. Doors from one to the other. An arbor of grape and similar vines around it to provide shade for onlookers at fighter practice and tourneys, since I intend on letting the SCA use my land for events. Fighting moving inside to the activities room on intemperate days. Though fighting in the snow has its good points.

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SOURCES: Some of the books I have used in compiling these notes. "Edible Landscaping" Rosalind Creasy, Sierra Club publishing, copyright 1982. The best book on its subject that I have found. "Landscape you Can Eat" Allen A. Swenson, David McKay Co. Inc., 1977. Not the Best book on this subject I hae read.

NO WORK GARDENING: "The One-Straw Revolution." Masanobu Fukuoka, Rodale Press, 1978. An interesting example of LISA Low Input Sustained Agriculture at a near commercial level.

"How to Farm Your Backyard the Mulch-Organic Way." Max Alth, McGraw-Hill Book Company 1977. Fact filled book no work gardening like Ruth Stouts book. More detail on getting started and scientific basis for system. Full of info may be wrong on a few points.

"Gardening Without Work", Ruth Stout, Devin-Adair Co., 1961. Every gardener in the world owes this lady a hug.ORGANIC GARDENING:

"The Adventurous Gardener", Nancy Wilkes Bubel, David R. Godine Publisher, 1979. An excellent book on unusual plants for the vegetable garden which has served to make many of the varieties mentioned more commonly grown and less unusual.

"Better Vegetable Gardens the Chinese Way" Peter Chan, Garden Way Publishing, 1985. A very practical book on backyard gardening.

"The Bio-Gardeners Bible" Lee Fryer, Chilton Book Company, 1982. An excellent book based on extensive personal experience.

"Carrots Love Tomatoes" Louise Riotte, Garden Way Publishing, 1975. An interesting book on plant interrelationships/companion planting.

"Composting, The Cheap and Natural Way to Make Your Garden Grow", Dick Kitto, Thorsons Publishers Limited, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, 1980. A good pamphlet on composting.

"The Rodale Guide to Composting," Jerry Minnich, Marjorie Hunt and Editors of Organic Gardening Magazine, Rodale Press 1979. Very extensive book, though largely material covered in other books in a more interesting manner. Useful reference.

"The Natural Garden," Roger Grounds, Stein and Day, 1976. This man's knowledge of his subject is formidable. I might be hesitant speaking to him lest I make a fool of myself. On the other hand, the book needs to be updated, and he works to hard.

"Chico's Organic Gardening and Natural Living", Frank (Chico) Bucaro and David Wallechinsky, J.B.Lippincott Co., 1972. Every Chico should have a David Wallechinsky, the world would be a wiser, warmer and more wonderful place.

"The Organic Gardener's Complete Guide to Vegetables and Fruits", Editors of Rodale Press, Rodale Press, 1982. A very good book.

"Planetary Planting", Louise Riotte, Simon and Schuster, 1975. One of the few books on this subject available, it takes courage to write a book like this.GARDENING HISTORY AND LORE:

"Old Wives Lore for Gardeners", Maureen and Bridget Boland, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. Pleasant reading with useful hints.

" The Adventurous Gardener" Christopher Lloyd, Random House, 1983. About flowers, not edible plants. Not the same book as the one under organic gardening.

"All About Apples," Alice A. Martin, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. Nice interesting book about apple history and folklore.

"Gardening in Small Spaces" Michael Miller, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1983. A good book of ideas on how to make the best of what you have.

"Green Immigrants," Claire Shaver Haughton, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. I wanted to steal this one instead of returning it to the library.

"The Berry Book", Robert Hendrickson, Doubleday and Co., 1981. Wonderful book about small fruits. The book on this subject so far.

"Crockett's Victory Garden" Jim Crockett, Little Brown&Co., 1977. The book that got me started reading gardening books.

"Crockett's Tool Shed", Jim Crockett, Little, Brown&Co., 1979. An excellent book on choosing and using garden tools.

"The New Victory Garden" Bob Thomson, Little, Brown & CO., 1987. An excellent book on gardening.

"How to Grow Your Own Chinese Vegetables" Geri Harrington, MacMillan Publishing, 1978. You want to grow everything she mentions.

"The Great American Tomato Book", Robert Hendrickson, Doubleday&Co.Inc., 1977. The book about tomatoes. Really good.

"Rootstocks for Fruit Crops" Edited by Roy C. Rom and Robert F. Carlson, John Wiley&Sons, 1987. Good deep coverage of subject aimed at commercial orchardists.

"Rx for Your Vegetable Garden", Duane Newcomb, J.P.Tarcher, Inc., 1982. Depressing but necessary book about everything that can go wrong and what to do about it. Must read, good reference.

"Native Inheritance, The Story of Corn in America", Howard T. Walden 2nd, Harper&Rowe, 1966. A wonderful book about corn.

"Weeds, The Unbidden Guests in Our Gardens", Mea Allen, The Viking Press, 1978. It is amazing how many weeds are also herbs.HERBS AND WILD PLANTS:

"Chinese Herbal Remedies" Albert Y. Leung, Universe Books, 1984. An interesting book detailing how chinese tradition uses common western spices and foods for healing medicines.

"The Complete Book of Herbs and Spices" Claire Leownefeld and Philippa Back, Little, Brown and Co., 1974. Very extensive encyclopedic book written very much from the ladies point of view.

"Culinary Herbs" James A. Duke, Ph.D, Trado-Medic Books, 1985. A very fine book. Exceptional reference and cooking and brewing information.

"Daffodils are Dangerous" Hubert Creekmore, Walker and Company, 1966. A fascinating book by a man seemingly so full of poison he sees it in all the world.

"Folk Medicine the Art and the Science" Edited by Richard P. Steiner, American Chemical Society, 1986. A collection of highly scientific articles on native medicine practice. I learned a great deal here.

"Herbal Medications" David G. Spoerke, Jr., Woodbridge Press Publishing Co., 1980. An interesting book about known active chemicals in herbs.

"The Herb Book" Arabella Boxer and Philippa Back, Octopus Books Limited, 1980. A pleasant coffeetable book of herbs not as extensive as the Complet Book of Herbs and Spices.

"The Magic of Herbs" David Conway, E.P.Dutton&Co, 1973. A wonderful book full of herbal lore.

"Medicinal Herbs" Michelle Mairesse, Arco Publishing, Inc, 1981. An uninspired encyclopedia of herbal remedies.

"Natures Healing Arts" Lonnelle Aikman, National Geographic Society, 1977. The best part of this book is the cover picture.

"A Natural History of Trees Of Eastern and Central North America" Donald Culross Peattie, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1966. A wonderful book full of lore and love for our native trees.

"Stalking the Good Life" Euell Gibbons, David McKay Co, Inc, 1966. A wonderful collection of personal experience and love of nature.

"Stalking the Wild Asparagus," Euell Gibbons, David McKay Co, Inc. 1962. I love this guy. I want to steal this book.

"Using Plants for Healing" Nelson Coon, Rodale Press, 1979. The best single book on medicinal plants I have seen to date.

"The Wild Food Trail Guide," Alan Hall, Holt, Rinehare and Winston, 1976. With this book and a pocketknife you could survive anywhere in the USA except a big city.

"Wild Shrubs and Vines, Eastern and Central North America" Donald W. Stokes, Harper&Rowe Publishers, 1981. A very pleasant book about various wild plants and their life cycles.

HOMESTEADING: Books of this nature cover all of the subjects of interest to me though generally in less detail than other books. Still they are hands on, and each one adds something to my secondhand store of experience.

"Back to Basics, How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills", Readers Digest Association, Inc., 1981. The best book in this area I have read.

"High Spirits" Peter Funk, Doubleday&Co., 1983. A pleasant book about raising a family on a farm.

"How to Live on Almost Nothing and Have Plenty", Janet Chadwick, Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. A very good book. A bit too 'do what the authorities say' but the recipe section is one of the best. Also, I love a lady who loves making a home.

"The New Frontier Handbook", James Bohlen, Schocken Books, 1975. Good book on energy sources and small scale energy concerns. A bit dated as technical data gets old fast.

"Homesteading in the City", Nancy Seligman, Follet Publishing Co, 1975. Started out slow, got good when she got to the kitchen.

"Making Cheses, Butters, Cream&Yogurt" Patricia Cleveland-Peck, Thorsons Publishers Limited, 1980. A wonderful and practical book.RAISING ANIMALS

"A Book of Bees" Sue Hubbel, Random House, 1988. A very pleasant read. It sets the style and spirit of the small beekeeper for me.

"The Joys of Beekeeping" Richard Taylor, St. Martin's Press, 1974. Wonderful book about keeping bees for fun and profit. Might be called the puttering philosophers guide to beekeeping.

"Beekeeping the Gentle Craft" John. F. Adams, Doubleday&Co. Inc., 1972. More of a commercial beekeepers book. Beekeeping for profit.

"Mastering the Art of Beekeeping", Ormond&Harry Aebi, Unity Press, 1979. The best single book on beekeeping so far.

"How to Raise and Train Pigeons" William H. Allen, Jr., Sterling Publishing Co., 1972. A book that makes you want to have pigeons.

"Raising Animals for Fun and Profit", Editors of Countryside Magazine, TAB Books, 1984. An excellent book on raising livestock for the home meat supply or small farm.

"Raising Rabbits" Ann Kanable, Rodale Press, 1977. A very practical book on raising rabbits for food and profit.SOLAR POWER:

"Golden Thread," Ken Butti and John Perlin, Cheshire Books, Palo Alto Ca, 1980. Excellent book about history of Solr Architecture and energy. A source for several other books I read.

"Direct Use of the Suns Energy." Farrington Daniels, New Haven and London Yale University Press 1964. Very fact filled manual on solr energy use.

"The Solar Almanac," Martin McPhillips, New York Facts on File Publishers, 1983. Beginners book on Solar energy.

"101 Patented Solar Energy Uses," Daniel J. O'Connor, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1981. Seems to be a collection of "solar" devices from the patent office designed to make solar power look silly or impractical. You can't help wondering if the author was hired by the oil companies to write the book. Still a neat, who thought of that, and if you changed this that might work kind of book.

"Workshop Proceedings Solar Cooling for Buildings" collected papers, Superintendent of Documents Washington DC. Seminar fas Feb 6-8,1974. Government and big business approach to solar power. Remember definition of elephant.

"Solar Age Catalog," Solar Vision, Inc. 1977. Sixties style seventies era overview of solar applications available at the time.WIND POWER:

"Wind Machines," Frank R. Eldridge, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1980. Very interesting book on Wind Power, good basic text.MISCELLANEOUS:

"Big Secrets", William Poundstone, William Morrow & Co., 1983. Surprisingly a very informative book.

"Book of Buffs, Masters, Mavens and Uncommon Experts," The Editors of the World Almanac, World Almanac Publications, 1980. The SCA contributed three experts to this book, more I think than any other single organization.

"Natural Poisons in Natural Foods" Alfred H. Wertheim, Lyle Stuart, Inc., 1974. The book for all your health (nut) conscious friends. Bound to make them neurotic. Good recommended reading for anyone.

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