Afghanistan is out of the News

This means it no longer exists, for most people, who depend on the News to tell them what is going on in the world. 

Afghanistan (a big chunk of the world's surface) no longer exists?

Not in most people's minds. 

An Introduction to Blockchain Technology

Techopediia 

"What is this?" I have been wondering. And here is the answer. 

Susie Kelly

Amazon has her. 

This gal knows how to write. She makes her misadventures (which are numerous) seem funny!

These are all Kindle books, which you can easily add to your Fire tablet. 

The Dominance of Evil

 I hesitate to write about this, but something is forcing me to do it.

It seems to me there are two forces in the world: good and evil. Forces that atre outside normal reality, and act on us.

This explains a lot: why vast areas of the world are good or evil, mostly evil. Why the Taliban are dominant in Afghanistan. Because evil has great appeal. 

In the same way, American voters found Trump irresistible. 

For Globalization to work, you need a global Community

Which does not exist, and is unlikely to ever exist. You can put this another way, and speak of the need for a global civilization. 

This is also unlikely to exist, and for the same reason: we developed as tribal people, of about 100 people for each tribe (each with its own language). That way, everyone in the tribe knew everyone else. 

A tribe of millions of people is not possible.

Deep Irrational Fear

This hit me in the middle of the night and gave me a bad scare. I can appreciate how severely it can affect those with mental difficulties. Where can they get help?

My wife Beth had severe mental problems and ended up in a psych ward. I got to visit her there and got to see how they treated her, which gave me a bad scare. 

When she was admitted, they gave her a shot of a powerful drug that knocked her out for two days. When she recovered, she was a different person and told me our marriage was over. This was progress, I asked them? I got no answer. 

What did I learn from this unfortunate episode? Mental illnesses are difficult to cure, in fact, many of them cannot be cured. 

But there are plenty of therapists who will try. And a new kind of therapy is invented every week. I have tried many of them myself. 

Silicon Valley, where I used to work, has about equal numbers of Mental developers and Computer developers. 

And the situation is getting worse.

JS III had little Interest in Theology

This becomes apparent as you read his Memoirs, a huge book where he talks about anything that comes to his mind.

I have previously referred to him as the Prophet who never grew up. He made the serious mistake of making his son his successor, instead choosing the best-qualified person, as the LDS do.