No understanding needed:
You may seriously even severely overestimate the presence and need for understanding in order to survive let alone survive well in this world. Little or no genuine (as opposed to programmed or instructional) reasoning is need not just to survive but even survive very well in this world of force, of survival of the ‘fittest’ or strongest at the expense of others.
Yes, beings in this world possess understanding, they understand what words eg ‘this, that, kill, speak, etc’ mean, they understand what the various words when strung together mean but their understanding is not live specific for each occasion but programmed, generalized, rules to be retrieved to be applied to various situations that they may be confronted with. If there are no rules or programs in their repertoire that they may retrieve to apply to a situation that has arisen, they are completely at sea, do not know what to do or say, they cannot gather all the relevant information of this situation to understand what it all means. They must be told by programs in their heads what to do or say in certain situations and if there are no programs in their heads to instruct them, they are dumbfounded and must painstakingly reprogram or rewire themselves to say or do something new for this new situation (eg learn how to talk and do like a doctor or nurse for one who is a student) before they can do or say it.
IN ORDER FOR STYLISH PEOPLE TO SAY OR DO SOMETHING NEW THEY MUST HESITANTLY SAY OR DO IT COPYING IT FROM OTHERS WHILST THEY ARE SIMULTANEOUSLY COPYING OR BURNING IT INTO THEIR MENTAL HARD DISKS AND ONLY AFTER IT IS WELL BURNT AND THEY CAN RETRIEVE IT LIKE SECOND NATURE DO THEY FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH THEIR NEW SUBSTANCE AND STYLE OF SPEECH AND ACTION.
WHATEVER PEOPLE CAN SAY, DO OR POSE IN THIS WORLD EXIST AS PLANS THAT CAN BE PERCEIVED, MEMORIZED AND BASED ON RETRIEVAL OF THIS RECORDED PLANS, STYLISH PEOPLE MERELY SUPPLY FORCE IN EXCESSIVE UNNECESSARY LEVELS TO POWER THROUGH OR CARRY OUT THESE PLANS IN WHICH THEY ARE MERE VOYEURS EXPERIENCING THE FRUITS OF THESE PLANS AND DISK JOCKEYS, OVERRATED SELECTORS OF WHICH ROTE SEQUENCE TO ACTIVATE AND STOP.
IN ORDER TO SURVIVE AND EVEN DO VERY WELL IN THIS WORLD ALL YOU NEED IS GOOD PERCEPTION, GOOD COPYING, GOOD RETRIEVING AND GOOD REPRODUCTION ABILITY OF WHAT YOU PERCEIVED AND COPIED. YOU MAY TRY TO UNDERSTAND AND END UP MISUNDERSTANDING WHAT YOU AND OTHERS FROM WHICH YOU COPIED SAY OR DO, BUT YOU DO NOT NEED TO UNDERSTAND, YOU JUST RENDER AND REAP THE SENSORY FRUITS OF THAT RENDERING BE IT WEALTH OR SENSATE GRATIFICATIONS.
Jesus said seeing they do not see, hearing they do not hear which means they do not see or hear even though they physically see and hear and that means they are without understanding of what they see or hear or no genuine understanding is needed to survive and even do well (materially) in this world.
Understand what?
You may say you understand words like ‘cat, dog, fish’, but this is not fresh specific understanding. It is a recorded retrieved rote understanding.
Somewhere in the distant past someone showed you a cat and said it is called a cat or they kept using cat in its presence so that you have perceived and committed to memory that when ‘cat’ is uttered it means a particular animal.
Thus this is not true or genuine understanding but rote or memorized to be rehashed, programmed understanding of what that word ‘cat’ means.
THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE INCLUDING THOSE WHO LIKE TO THINK OF THEMSELVES AS VERY SMART OR FULL OF UNDERSTANDING AND THE FACT THAT THEY STILL CONTINUE TO SPEAK AND BEHAVE THE WAYS THEY DO WITH STYLE AND EMOTION INDICATES THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT I SAY, OTHERWISE THEY WILL NOT CONTINUE TO SPEAK THE WAY THEY DO, EVEN WHEN NOT TO DO SO (NOT STRETCHING SYLLABLES, CHANGE SPEED, LOUDNESS, NOT SMILING OR JOKING) IS THE WAY PERMANENTLY OUT OF STRESS, RESTLESSNESS, STRESS, SADNESS, HURT AND FEAR THAT WAS UNTHINKABLE IN THE PAST AND IT ALSO LEADS TO ETERNAL LIFE NOT ETERNAL HABITATIONS. THE REASON THEY CANNOT DROP THEIR STYLE IS BECAUSE THEY LACK GENUINE UNDERSTANDING, THEY LACK GENUINE DISCERNMENT, THEY CANNOT SEE OR HEAR CONSTANT STRETCHING OF SYLLABLES, CHANGES OF SPEED AND LOUDNESS THAT IS THE SOURCE OF THEIR STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION AND THEY ARE NOT MASTERS OF THEMSELVES BUT SLAVES OR ROBOTS OF THEIR STYLISH BEHAVIOUR THAT ISSUE FROM THEIR MENTAL JUKEBOX OR PARROT. UNLESS THEY STOP THEIR EXISTING PROGRAMS AND PERFORM LIVE THEY CANNOT SPEAK WITHOUT STRETCHING, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS WHICH IS BEHAVIOR THAT CANNOT BE PROGRAMMED. STYLISH PEOPLE CAN PROGRAM AND REPROGRAM THEMSELVES, WHAT THEY CANNOT DO IS TO BEHAVE WITHOUT PROGRAMS, THEY HAVE NEVER DONE SO THROUGHOUT THEIR LIVES.
WHENEVER PEOPLE CHANGE THEIR PERSONALITIES OR SUBSTANCE AND STYLE OF SPEECH OR ACTION, THEY MERELY REPROGRAM THEMSELVES, WHAT THEY HAVE NEVER DONE AND CANNOT DO IS SWITCH FROM PROGRAMMED SUBSTANCE AND STYLE TO UN-PROGRAMMED SUBSTANCE SPECIFIC TO THE OCCASION SPEECH AND ACTION. BECAUSE UNDERSTANDING AND ACHIEVING WHAT I TEACH REQUIRES THIS, IT IS BEYOND THE CAPACITY OF MOST IF NOT ALL ROBOTIC STYLISH EMOTIONAL LIKING AND DISLIKING PEOPLE WHO ARE DUMBFOUNDED.
Take this there:
You may say you understand what is meant by ‘take this there’ but it is purely one of memorization and carrying out what that memorization requires in which genuine specific to the occasion understanding is not required.
If you memorized ‘take’ as using your hands to hold, ‘this’ as an indicated object and ‘there’ as a place further away as indicated, then your understanding of what is said and carrying it out is purely a matter of memorizing what each word individually mean and understanding and then carrying out what they collectively mean.
THUS A LOT IF NOT THE ENTIRETY OF THE SO CALLED UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE CONDUCT IN THEIR DAILY LIVES IS NOT GENUINE UNDERSTANDING, IT IS NOTHING MORE THAN RECOLLECTING THE MEANING OF WORDS AS THEY MEMORIZED IN THE PAST SPOKEN TO THEM AND THEN JOINING TOGETHER WHAT THOSE WORDS COLLECTIVELY MEAN AND THEN CARRYING IT OUT IF THEY AGREE.
You memorized not understood it:
You memorized and carried out ‘take this there’ not understood its meaning because there is nothing to understand here just memorizing, retrieving and carrying out what ‘take this there’ orders.
You can now programme robots that will obey verbal commands and hearing ‘take this there’ a robot can seize an object and carry it to a further place indicated. The robot does not understand anything; it merely detects commands and carries out what the commands require of it. In the same way human robots memorize what each word in ‘take this there’ requires and execute what is required.
There are other situations where understanding is required and you need understanding to see and know that you need to use mental force to stretch syllables, change speed and loudness and this impact on the consciousness as stress, restlessness, distraction (inability to concentrate), sadness, hurt and fear. You need understanding to see and know that spoken style is nothing more than how a person uses force in a consistent way that has similarities and differences from others to stretch syllables, change speed and loudness and because it is all about the use of force that is blind and harmful, style is meaningless or controlled madness that not surprisingly will lapse into uncontrollable madness and its purpose too is blind or meaningless, to deceive, impress, please, intimidate or dominate others which are not about stirring reason but stirring others’ mental forces to be attracted to you or what you said or to be fearful (intimidated).
THUS IN MANY IF NOT ALL ROUTINE EVERYDAY TRANSACTIONS LITTLE OR NO UNDERSTANDING IS REQUIRED, JUST PREVIOUS MEMORIZATION OF THE ASSOCIATIONS OF EACH WORD OR ACTION AND THEN CARRYING OUT WHAT THOSE MEMORIZED, AGREED UPON ASSOCIATIONS REQUIRE OF YOU. YOU DON'T NEED TO UNDERSTAND ANYTHING AT ALL, JUST CARRY OUT WHAT THE WORDS SAY.
What is understanding?
If understanding exists, there is such a thing called understanding then, as the Buddha said, it can be clearly defined, such and such is understanding.
UNDERSTANDING IS SIMPLY SEEING AND KNOWING AS TRUE SOMETHING THAT IS TRUE THAT IS HIDDEN OR NOT IMMEDIATELY EVIDENT.
There is no need to understand what you see and know that is self evident. For instance if you saw the two policemen kill Altanturya, you saw and knew it and it is self evident and there is no need to understand the two policemen killed Altanturya. Thus it is only when you cannot see or know something or it is hidden or not obvious do you need to understand. When Jesus asked his disciples, “Are you yet without understanding” he is asking them if they are yet without seeing and knowing what is true that is not self evident or obvious.
You cannot understand what is false because no one can see and know as true what is false.
Reflecting ordinary stylish emotional people’s confusion, they use the word ‘understand’ approximately in a confused way, what they call understanding is frequently not understanding, there is no understanding involved at all, it is actually a process of labelling and symbolism.
For instance, there is no understanding or seeing or knowing as true involved in hearing and carrying out the statement, ‘take this there’ but it is merely a process of attaching verbal labels or symbols to certain actions to be remembered so that when the labels are again uttered by someone, you know what they represent and you carry out what they represent.
‘Take’ is a verbal symbol or label that is applied by those conversant in English to a certain action undertaken with one’s hands (you do not take with your feet) just as ‘throw’ is another label applied by convention to another action undertaken by one’s hands. No understanding or knowing as true what is hidden or not immediately self evident is involved here, only a perception or seeing an action that constitute ‘taking’ or ‘throwing’, seeing or hearing a word ‘take’ or ‘throw’ ascribed to that action with the hand and memorizing that association of that word and that action until you reliably remember the association between that word ‘take’ and that action that constitute ‘taking’.
THUS WHEN PEOPLE SPEAK OF UNDERSTANDING THE MEANING OF WORDS LIKE ‘TAKE’, ‘THIS’, ‘THERE’ AND UNDERSTANDING THE MESSAGE ‘TAKE THIS THERE’ THEY ARE CONFUSING UNDERSTANDING WHICH IS KNOWING AND SEEING AS TRUE WHAT IS HIDDEN OR NOT IMMEDIATELY SELF EVIDENT WITH BEING CONVERSANT IN CONVENTIONS ASCRIBED IN SPOKEN AND WRITTEN SYMBOLS THAT REQUIRES NO UNDERSTANDING BUT MERELY PERCEPTION OF THE ACTIONS THAT CONSTITUTE ‘TAKE’, ‘THIS’ & ‘THERE’, REMEMBERING THE ACTIONS THAT CONSTITUTE ‘TAKE’, ‘THIS’ & ‘THERE’ WHENEVER IT IS HEARD SO THAT HE CAN CARRY OUT THE INSTRUCTIONS OR MESSAGE SPOKEN. PEOPLE SPEAK OF THEIR UNDERSTANDING WHAT ‘TAKE THIS THERE’ MEANS BUT THEY MAY BE WRONG, THEIR ‘UNDERSTANDING’ MAY BE A PURELY MECHANICAL PROCESS OF ATTACHING VERBAL LABELS TO CERTAIN ACTIONS, MEMORIZING WHAT THOSE LABELS ARE SO THAT WHEN THOSE LABELS OR WORDS ARE AGAIN HEARD, TO CARRY OUT WHAT THE LABELS OR WORDS ‘TAKE THIS THERE’ SAY.
People ask erroneously, “Do you understand English” when they should say, “Are you conversant or competent in English as a medium of communication?” because there is nothing that is true and hidden in English that can be understood, it is just a medium of communication amongst many others eg Mandarin that requires competence.
By contrast, understanding is needed to see or know as true a statement such as ‘force is blind’, ‘force can only change direction, speed and strength’, ‘force cannot be stopped by reason but force once triggered can only expend itself or be brought to an end by an opposing force’ because what is stated is true but it is not immediately self evident.
That ordinary stylish people are robots rehashing all the time is a statement of truth that is not immediately self evident that requires understanding, seeing and knowing as true because it is true.
The statement that there is constant forceful stretching of syllables, changes in speed and loudness in the speech of all ordinary people and this is the cause of the insoluble renewing stress, restlessness, distraction, sadness, feeling hurt and fear that they must suffer from is true and knowable but it is not immediately apparent or self evident and must be understood by the reader or listener, requires understanding by the listener before he can see and know it is true.
PEOPLE DEVELOP A MEMORY OF WHAT VARIOUS WORDS STAND FOR (A PURELY MECHANICAL INNOCULATION OR MEMORIZING PROCESS) AND WHEN THOSE WORDS ARE HEARD STRUNG TOGETHER IN A SENTENCE, THEY RECOGNIZE THE SUM TOTAL OF WHAT THOSE WORDS COLLECTIVELY STAND FOR AND THEY BELIEVE THEY UNDERSTAND, THEY HAVE UNDERSTANDING BUT THEY MAY BE MISTAKEN BECAUSE WHAT THEY HAVE IS MERELY COMPETENCE IN RECOGNIZING THE ASSOCIATIONS OF WORDS AND ACTIONS OR OBJECTS THEY REPREESENT AND THUS COMPETENT ARE ABLE TO USE MUTUALLY ACCEPTED WORDS TO COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER. THIS DOES NOT MEAN THEY UNDERSTAND, WHICH IS THE ABILITY TO SEE OR KNOW AS TRUE SOMETHING THAT IS TRUE BUT IS HIDDEN OR NOT IMMEDIATELY APPARENT. BECAUSE A LOT OF THE THINGS PEOPLE SEE AND KNOW AS TRUE, PEOPLE SPEAK AND DO AS IF TRUE CAN BE OBJECTIVELY PROVEN TO BE FALSE BY ME, THEY CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY SAY OR DO BECAUSE NO ONE CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT IS FALSE AND THUS THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND.
YOU CANNOT TRULY UNDERSTAND IN SOME AREAS AND FALSELY UNDERSTAND IN OTHER AREAS BECAUSE A PERSON OF TRUTH AND TRUE UNDERSTANDING CANNOT OR WILL DECLINE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HE DID NOT SEE OR KNOW AS TRUE AND ONLY STICK TO WHAT HE UNDERSTANDS, SEES OR KNOWS AS TRUE AND THUS IF YOU HAVE FALSE UNDERSTANDING IN SOME AREAS (EG YOUR STYLE & SMILING MEANINGFUL OR TRUE), YOU DO NOT HAVE GENUINE UNDERSTANDING AT ALL BECAUSE IN THAT SITUATION A TRULY UNDERSTANDING PERSON WILL ASSUME THE POSITION THAT HE DOES NOT KNOW OR UNDERSTAND WHETHER SMILING AND STYLE ARE TRUE.
FOR INSTANCE THE STYLE IN THEIR SPEECH IS ALL ABOUT FORCE AND FALSE AND NO ONE CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT IS FORCEFUL AND FALSE AND YET THEY ACT AS IF THEIR STYLES ARE MEANINGFUL AND THEREFORE THEY CANNOT HAVE GENUINE UNDERSTANDING. SIMILARLY THEIR FREQUENT SMILES ARE FALSE, ALL ABOUT USING FORCE TO ACTIVATE THEIR FACIAL MUSCLES IN A REHASHED PATTERN AND YET THEY PERCEIVE THEIR SMILES AS MEANINGFUL AND TRUE AND THUS THEY CANNOT HAVE GENUINE UNDERSTANDING BUT THEY HAVE FALSE UNDERSTANDING.
Words cannot be understood but must be remembered:
Words have meaning that must both (the word and its meaning) be memorized, not understood. If you are desirous of communicating in English, if you want to impress others with your ‘command’ of English, you must memorize English words and memorize the ascribed meanings to them so that you can use them and receive (and in some instances understand) what people are trying to communicate when they use the same words.
YOU REMEMBER WORDS AND REMEMBER THE MEANINGS ASCRIBED TO THEM, YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND WORDS, UNDERSTAND ENGLISH.
EACH AND EVERY WORD AND THEIR ASCRIBED MEANING MUST BE INDIVIDUALLY REMEMBERED IN A PURELY MECHANICAL PROCESS.
No, false and true understanding:
There are many in this world, even in the high echelons of society and indeed religion who have no or false understanding of things that are essential or at the heart of their suffering and mental torment and persecutes all those who have the misfortune to interact with them.
Few are they with true understanding. Even those whose behaviour implies they believe they are good and true are deluding themselves, they are devoid of true understanding even after I have pointed out to them clearly and in detail what is false and harmful. What is important is that as a result of their not understanding what I said, their MISUNDERSTANDING what I said, they will continue to wallow in suffering that will get worse with age and they are headed for another Age of perdition building up a pile of skeleton as high as mountain, shedding blood from having their necks cut as humans and animals that the Buddha said is greater than the four great oceans.
A robot can drive a car well:
Cars driven by modern computers with sophisticated sensors and rapid responding software have successfully completed demanding obstacle courses without human guidance or instructions. And these robots have no understanding of anything at all, they only do as they are told by their programs according to what they are told to sense or perceive.
THUS YOU DO NOT NEED TO HAVE UNDERSTANDING TO PILOT EVEN A MODERN JETLINER OR EVEN BE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ALL YOU NEED IS GOOD PERCEPTION, GOOD PROGRAMS IN YOUR MIND (OR HANDLERS TELLING YOU WHAT TO SAY OR DO IF YOU ARE PRESIDENT) TELLING YOU WHAT TO DO IN THIS AND THAT SITUATION.
No one will knowingly kill himself:
Until they become mad, no one will knowingly kill himself but he will do so only without knowing that he is doing so and the reason this can happen is because ordinary people are not directly responsible for their actions but it is their mental parrot or jukebox that they trust and embrace as self that is responsible and this parrot is stressing them and everyone who comes into contact with them thus slowly killing himself with forceful constant stretching, changing speed and strength of force.
This mental parrot is without knowing or understanding, it merely uses force to carry out with a consistent style whatever it is programmed to say or do, creating insoluble renewing stress, restlessness and distraction that the foolish person does not realize has a cause that is totally remediable and unnecessary.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR A PERSON WHO KNOWS AND SEE TO CONSTANTLY SUBJECT HIMSELF TO STRESS, RESTLESSNESS, DISTRACTION, SADNESS, HURT AND FEAR BY CONSTANTLY USING FORCE TO STRETCH, CHANGE SPEED AND LOUDNESS AND BECAUSE ORDINARY STYLISH PEOPLE ARE CONSTANTLY DOING SO, THEY CANNOT KNOW AND SEE, CANNOT UNDERSTAND AND THEY ARE WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING. FURTHER WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND SAYING ARE HEAPING KARMA THAT WILL RESULT IN PAIN THAT IS LIKE AN OCEAN AND ETERNITY IN DURATION AND YET THEY SEE NOTHING WRONG, THINK THEY ARE BLAMELESS. SUCH A PERSON CANNOT KNOW, SEE AND UNDERSTAND.
How come you did not understand?
If you can understand, how come you did not understand that statements like ‘a saree is anything but a piece of cloth’, ‘deafening silence’, case thrown out of court & ‘nothing except’ are always false? How come you do not realize ‘Well, I will have to think about it’ is false, the ‘well’ is unnecessary, for show and actually he means ‘not well, I will have to think about it’
ORDINARY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PROGRAMMED BY SOCIETY TO ACCEPT MANY FALSE THINGS AS TRUE AND NOT TO SEE MANY FALSE THINGS AS FALSE WHICH IS WHY THEY ARE CLUELESS WHEN PRESENTED BY MANY THINGS THAT ARE CLEARLY FALSE.
Emotional understanding:
What people call their understanding of what is said or seen may be the stirring of their emotions at what is said or done.
Because their emotions (liking, disliking, sadness, hurt or fear) is stirred strongly by something said or happened they emotionally feel they understand when it is a meaningless stirring of mental force that leads to stress, restlessness and distraction and no true clearly seeing understanding.
Words & meaning:
Words have meaning but words and their meanings are two different things.
You can remember a word eg kleptomaniac but not remember its meaning or you can remember a word and its meaning or you can remember a word and remember its WRONG meaning.
There is nothing to understand about a word, nothing to understand about its meaning but you just mechanically register or remember it in your mind so that whenever the word comes up you remember its meaning and based on its meaning you remember or know what the person is talking about.
Learning and remembering a word is all about perceiving, encoding in the mind and decoding it.
Learning and remembering the meaning of a word is all about perceiving, encoding in the mind and decoding it.
THUS LANGUAGE IS ESSENTIALLY ABOUT ENCODING VARIOUS WORDS WITH SEPARATE DISCRETE MEANINGS THAT ALL PRACTITIONERS OF THAT LANGUAGE MUST SUBSCRIBE TO SO THAT WHEN THE WORDS ARE STRUNG TOGETHER TO MAKE SENTENCES, THEIR COLLECTIVE ASCRIBED MEANINGS OR WHAT EACH WORD STAND FOR CONVEYS A MESSAGE THAT DOES NOT IN ITSELF NEED UNDERSTANDING, THE WORDS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. IT IS ONLY WHEN THE WORDS ARE USED TO CONVEY MESSAGES THAT ARE NOT IMMEDIATELY EVIDENT THAT UNDERSTANDING IS NEEDED.
THUS THE MESSAGE THAT THE CONSTANT FORCEFUL STRETCHING OF SYLLABLES, CHANGING OF SPEED AND LOUDNESS IS THE CAUSE OF THE STRESS, RESTLESSNESS, DISTRACTION, SADNESS, HURT AND FEAR THAT THE PERPETRATOR MUST SUFFER FROM IS NOT IMMEDIATELY EVIDENT FROM THE SUM TOTAL OF THE WORDS SPOKEN BUT MUST BE UNDERSTOOD BY EXAMINATION AND PUTTING IT TO THE TEST EG BY NOT STRETCHING SYLLABLES, NOT CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS TO SEE IF THERE IS A STRESS REDUCTION.
Language and understanding:
THE TRUTH OF SOMETHING IS OBJECTIVE NOT SUBJECTIVE AND APPLIES TO EVERYONE. IT IS NOT FOR ANYONE TO INSIST WHAT IS FALSE IS TRUE, WHAT IS TRUE IS FALSE AND WHAT IS NONSENSE MAKES SENSE. THE TRUTH OF SOMETHING IS OBJECTIVE NOT SUBJECTIVE AND APPLIES TO EVERYONE. IT IS NOT FOR ANYONE TO INSIST WHAT IS FALSE IS TRUE, WHAT IS TRUE IS FALSE AND WHAT IS NONSENSE MAKES SENSE BUT WHAT IS TRUE IS TRUE, WHAT IS FALSE IS FALSE AND WHAT IS NONSENSE IS NONSENSE TO EVERYONE AND THE FACT THAT YOU INSIST DESPITE BEING TOLD REFLECTS ADVANCED INCURABLE FALSE PERCEPTION..
THUS, IT DOES NOT MATTER WHETHER SOMETHING SAID OR DONE OR HAS HAPPENED IS TRUE, FALSE OR NONSENSE (MAKES NO SENSE), SO LONG AS A PERSON SEES WHAT IS TRUE AS TRUE, WHAT IS FALSE AS FALSE AND WHAT IS NONSENSE AS NONSENSE, HE TRULY UNDERSTANDS WHAT IS SAID OR DONE OR HAS HAPPENED. IF HE SEES OR KNOWS WHAT IS TRUE AS FALSE, WHAT IS FALSE AS TRUE, WHAT IS NONSENSE AS SENSIBLE, HE MISUNDERSTOOD. IF HE DOES NOT SEE OR KNOW WHAT IS SAID OR DONE, CANNOT MAKE SENSE OF WHAT IS SAID OR DONE OR HAS HAPPENED, HE DOES NOT UNDERSTAND.
If you asked ordinary people what is language, it is likely that their emotions will be stirred, they will become uneasy and mutter something like language is hard to define even defies description (false because language is definable and simple to define), it is mysterious and wondrous.
Only force or emotion can make a person uneasy when asked a question. The reason they become emotional and uneasy is because they are rote performers who need to rehash their responses and it is not every day that they are asked a question like what is language to which they do not have a ready composed answer that they can rehash and thus they feel lost, all at sea. Further they have a tendency to see everything as ‘wow’ or to exaggerate and they have advanced false perception to see language as something more than it really simply is.
Language is primarily spoken and written but there can also be primitive sign language.
Speaking and writing is about converting or encoding experiences or events into spoken or written words so that they can be communicated to another who is conversant or initiated into that language.
When you use English to speak or write you are encoding your experiences or events or ideas into written or spoken symbols or words that all have clearly definable commonly accepted meaning that another person conversant in English reading or hearing gets the message it is intended to convey.
When you hear what is spoken or read what is written in a language that you are conversant or initiated into, you decode the written or spoken words into experiences or events so that you get an idea or picture of what has happened that is being communicated.
THUS LANGUAGE IS VERY SIMPLE TO UNDERSTAND AND THUS DEFINE, IT IS NOT MYSTERIOUS NOR DEFIES DESCRIPTION, LANGUAGE IS SIMPLY A TOOL TO ENCODE WHATEVER IS HAPPENING OR EVENTS INTO SPOKEN OR WRITTEN WORDS THAT IS DECODABLE BY THOSE WHO READ OR HEAR SO THAT THEY GET THE MESSAGE IT IS INTENDED TO CONVEY. NO UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IS TRUE THAT IS NOT IMMEDIATELY OBVIOUS IS REQUIRED, ONLY THE ABILITY TO PERCEIVE AND ENCODE OR MEMORIZE THE WORDS SPOKEN OR WRITTEN TOGETHER WITH THEIR MEANINGS AND THE ABILITY TO PERCEIVE AND RETRIEVE FROM MEMORY WORDS AND THEIR MEANINGS WHEN HEARD OR READ IS NEEDED.
In many ordinary usages, language or speech or writing does not require understanding which is something separate and a higher faculty than the ability to read and write.
For instance the message ‘he killed her’ does not require any understanding, it merely states, whether true or false, to those who understands English, that a certain male person killed a certain female person. It is simple or plain and requires no understanding.
On the other hand, the statement that the current high oil price is not natural but artificial or contrived, it is a bubble that is the result of speculation or ramping in the name of making profits requires examination and understanding why it is true.
Similarly the veracity of the Buddha’s statement that singing is crying and dancing is insanity is not immediately apparent and requires reflection and understanding by the reader before it can be determined by him whether it is true or not.
THE FACT THAT PEOPLE BECOME UNEASY WHEN ASKED UNUSUAL QUESTIONS FOR WHICH THEY DO NOT HAVE READY ANSWERS IS AN INDICATION THEY ARE NOT LIVE PERFORMERS BUT THEY ARE ROTE PERFORMERS WHO ALWAYS NOT USUALLLY REGURGITATE FROM READY ANSWERS IN THEIR MENTAL JUKEBOXES AND FACED WITH AWKWARD QUESTIONS FOR WHICH THEY HAVE NOT COMPOSED ANSWERS THEY FUMBLE AND BECOME UNEASY WHILST THEY SEARCH THEIR JUKEBOXES FOR RECORDED REPLIES THAT MIGHT APPEASE THE QUESTIONER. WHY SHOULD A LIVE SPECIFIC TO THE OCCASION PERFORMER BECOME FLUSTERED? HE MERELY CALMLY UNEMOTIONALLY UNDERSTANDS WHAT THE QUESTION IS AND BASED ON HIS KNOWLEDGE ABOUT LANGUAGE, HE COMPOSES A SPECIFIC TO THE OCCASION ANSWER TO THE QUESTION WHOSE CORRECTNESS MAY VARY.
THE FACT THAT ORDINARY PEOPLE MAY WAX LYRICAL ABOUT LANGUAGE EVEN SAYING IT DEFIES DESCRIPTION REFLECTS THEIR FALSE PERCEPTION THAT WILL END IN MAD PERCEPTION BECAUSE WHATEVER IS TRUE OR HAS HAPPENED WHICH INCLUDES THE ENTITY LANGUAGE CAN BE SIMPLY AND CLEARLY DEFINED SUCH AND SUCH IS LANGUAGE, NOT SO WONDERFUL AND COMPLEX AS TO DEFY DESCRIPTION.
Language is merely a tool for encoding events or whatever has happened into written or spoken words so that they can be decoded by all those initiated into that language into events and ideas so that they get a picture of what happened.
Understanding is merely seeing or knowing the truth that is communicated by language or what has happened (understanding May 13 is understanding the nature of what happened that day).
Not understanding is an inability to understand or make sense or see the truth, as it is, of what is communicated or happened.
Misunderstanding, which ordinary emotional liking and disliking people are prone to more than they realize is interpreting what is said or written or what has happened wrongly or falsely (as he liked or disliked it) so that he comes to false or wrong conclusions.
IT DOES NOT MATTER WHETHER SOMETHING SAID OR DONE OR HAS HAPPENED IS TRUE, FALSE OR NONSENSE (MAKES NO SENSE), SO LONG AS A PERSON SEES WHAT IS TRUE AS TRUE, WHAT IS FALSE AS FALSE AND WHAT IS NONSENSE AS NONSENSE, HE TRULY UNDERSTANDS WHAT IS SAID OR DONE OR HAS HAPPENED. IF HE SEES OR KNOWS WHAT IS TRUE AS FALSE, WHAT IS FALSE AS TRUE, WHAT IS NONSENSE AS SENSIBLE, HE MISUNDERSTOOD OR HAS FALSE UNDERSTANDING OR IS DELUDED. IF HE DOES NOT SEE OR KNOW WHAT IS SAID OR DONE, CANNOT MAKE SENSE OF WHAT IS SAID OR DONE OR HAS HAPPENED, HE DOES NOT UNDERSTAND.
Shortages never cause prices to rise:
Only higher costs of production causes prices to rise, shortages never caused prices to rise but the shortage triggers opportunism and profiteering that cause prices to rise. If it is cost of production that has risen causing the price of oil to rise, why do you say as Krugman says, that shortages justify soaring prices?
Instead because cost of oil production has likely remained unchanged the price increase reflects pure profit for producers.
Thus if you think that shortages is the cause of high oil prices then you do not understand, you have false understanding.
Selfish people do not understand:
Selfish people do not understand, they only think about themselves.
Because all ordinary people are selfish to greater or lesser extent (usually greater than they concede), they do not understand to greater (usually greater) or lesser extent.
Robots do not understand:
However sophisticated, robots never understand, they only do as they are told or programmed to do.
Because ordinary stylish people are robots in how and what they perceive, think, speak and do, they do not understand; however sophisticated their behaviour is derived from programs or instructions in their minds.
People who like and dislike do not understand:
It is like and dislike, sadness and hurt and fear that is the basis of people’s behaviour and whatever reasons they proffer are excuses justifying their actions based on emotions and a person who bases his behaviour on emotions that are proxies of force have no reason and do not understand and so because ordinary people all like and dislike, they cannot truly understand but they misunderstand and do not understand even things that are quite simple.
Liking and disliking is suffering:
Compared to neither liking nor disliking, to like and dislike is suffering, not the pleasure it is made out to be.
To speak with constant stretching of syllables, changes of speed and loudness is suffering.
To smile and express facially is suffering.
To speak and behave with eagerness or excitement is suffering.
Because all ordinary people continue to like and dislike, smile, express facially, speak eagerly and excitedly, even after they have been told, they cannot have true reason, they cannot understand but they are robots that according to the Buddha, already like the dead.
Behaviour that cannot be understood:
There are many things people say and do that cannot be understood because there is no reason in it.
For instance someone who is getting into his car to leave may see you arriving and decide to take out his floor mat to dust just to make you wait for your parking space.
There is no reason behind it although he might make an excuse to himself that indeed it is his desire to dust his floor mat but his action is based on ill will, to deprive others and make them suffer and that is not based on reason but based on force and ill will to want others to suffer.
A LOT OF PEOPLE’S SPEECH AND ACTIONS ARE ACTUALLY BASED ON EMOTION, LIKE OR DISLIKE TO ATTACK OR MAKE OTHERS SUFFER AND THAT IS WITHOUT REASON, CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD ALTHOUGH THEY MAY TRY TO RATIONALIZE OR JUSTIFY THEIR ACTIONS. IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR PEOPLE WHOSE SPEECH AND ACTIONS ARE BASED ON FORCE OR EMOTION TO BE UNDERSTANDING OR UNDERSTAND. IF THEY UNDERSTAND THEY WILL NOT DO OR SAY THINGS THAT ARE NOT UNDERSTANDABLE.
People never smiled because they liked somebody:
People never smile just because they liked somebody but they smiled because they want to manipulate the person they liked like a man desirous of getting to know her in order to gain sensual pleasures from her.
However, in the advanced state of automated jukebox behaviour the person can automatically irresistibly smile as a result of seeing a pretty girl but this is not something to be celebrated except by the fool because it is the next step to totally mad rote behaviour in which the jukebox override your control and automatically activate itself and rather than pleasure it is tormenting and madness.
Thus if you think you smile because you liked someone you have false or wrong understanding and you do not understand.
Lost parrot tells police his address:
This headline is false. The parrot was merely regurgitating his address automatically after singing children’s song, it was not specifically or truly telling the police its address. It may not even understand what it is vocalizing is its address and so to say it told police his address is misleading or false.
Great Singapore Sales Kicks Off Friday:
You have false perception that will end in mad perception if you think a sale can kick off. A sale can commence but it cannot kick off except in your false perception it can and the reason is because the person is a forceful hostile or aggressive person who likes or is attracted to use words that convey force (kick) as compared to force neutral words (commences).
IF YOU THINK THIS IS A MATTER OF SEMANTICS YOU MAY BE RIGHT OR YOU HAVE WRONG VIEW THAT THE BUDDHA SAID LED TO HELL OR THE ANIMAL WOMB.
The difference between parrot and man:
There may be those who think that because man understands what he says and it is appropriate to the occasion, he is not a robot like the parrot but this is wrong view and poor discernment.
Whereas the parrot was trained to sing children’s song and recite its address afterwards and it may not even understand what it sings and says, humans are merely a higher level of robotics in that humans understand what they are asked eg ‘where do you stay?’ and they understand their reply that is appropriate, “I stay at blah, blah, blah” but if you examine the substance and style of the reply and compare it with past records of all that this person has uttered you will find that this is not the first nor the last time the person has said, “I stay at blah, blah, blah” with the same style and substance and it is therefore regurgitated.
IT IS TRUE HUMANS UNDERSTAND WHAT IS ASKED OF THEM AND THEY UNDERSTAND THEIR REPLIES WHICH ARE USUALLY (BUT NOT ALWAYS) APPROPRIATE TO THE SITUATION BUT THE ANSWER IS MEMORIZED AND REHASHED FOR THE SITUATION AND THEY ARE THEREFORE STILL ROBOTS, ONLY ROBOTS WHO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY ROBOTICALLY SAY OR DO.
SO LONG AS THERE IS A COPY OF WHAT IS SAID AND DONE WHICH IS AN UNADULTERATED COPY OR RECOMBINATION OF VARIOUS COPIES, IT IS REHASHING AND THE PERSON IS STILL A ROBOT, PROFESSOR OR NO PROFESSOR.
No shortage of gold:
There is no shortage of gold, if anything the supply of gold is increasing since gold is not consumable like oil is, so why has the price of gold risen to such great heights? The reasons may be emotional driven (desirability of gold in the eyes of many as an object and investment or protection against inflation) by speculation.
THUS THE ABSENCE OF SHORTAGE DOES NOT EXCLUDE UNREASONABLE PRICE RISES. SHORTAGES ARE NOT NECESSARY TO CAUSE UNREASONABLE PRICE RISES.
Increased demand leading to shortages or reduced supply leading to shortages usually but not necessarily lead to price increases but this is not because of the shortage itself but to emotions such shortages invariably stir and reflect desperation and prices people are willing to pay to get what they want.
There may be rare cases where shortages do not lead to wild price rises because there is no emotion involved, speculators are not drawn in and people are not willing to pay higher prices to get the item in shortage. For instance a factory or family business may be short of workers but it may not necessarily raise salaries to tempt workers.
THUS SHORTAGES AND PRICES ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS AND SHORTAGES DO NOT DIRECTLY CAUSE PRICE RISES BUT THE ENTRY OF SPECULATORS & EMOTIONAL, PANIC DRIVEN BIDDING UP OF PRICES TRIGGERED BY THE SHORTAGE IS THE TRUE CAUSE. IF THERE IS A SHORTAGE AND PEOPLE DO NOT GET EMOTIONAL OR DESPERATE, THEY JUST DENY THEMSELVES, THEN PRICES MAY NOT INCREASE.
Denying yourself:
Jesus said that in order not to perish, to reach eternal life in heaven, a person must deny himself, carry his cross (of persecution by those who do not deny themselves) and go with him.
Who is the man who denies himself?
The person who is angry, who practice anger (dislike, hate) is a man who does not deny himself. The person who gives up his anger, dislike and hatred is the man who denies himself.
The person who is greedy, lustful and eager is the man who does not deny himself and the person who is not greedy (covetous), lustful or eager is a man who denies himself.
The person who is stylish, who wants to impress, please, intimidate and dominate others with his style or how he uses force to constantly stretch syllables, change speed and loudness is the man who does not deny himself but joins in in the ways of this world.
The person who is not stylish, who does not stretch syllables, change speed and loudness in order to impress, please, intimidate and dominate others is the person who denies himself.
AND IF YOU WILL DENY YOURSELF OF YOUR ANGER, GREED (LIKE) AND STYLE YOU WILL ALSO DENY YOURSELF OF THE COMMISSION OF ALL FORMS OF EVIL BECAUSE THEY ARE THE FUNDAMENTAL DRIVES OF ALL SIN.
IF YOU DON’T DENY YOURSELF THEN YOU MUST SUFFER FROM STRESS, RESTLESSNESS, DISTRACTION, SADNESS, HURT AND FEAR THAT IS CONDITIONING AND LEAD TO INCREASING INTENSIFICATION AND MADNESS AND AFTERWARDS YOU WILL PERISH AND END IN ETERNAL PUNISHMENT. JESUS SAID EVEN THE FIVE MAIDENS WHO CAME TO MEET THE GROOM BUT FORGOT TO BRING OIL FOR THEIR LAMPS WILL NOT BE ADMITTED, EVEN IF THEY AFTERWARDS BROUGHT OIL. AND MANY MAIDENS CANNOT EVEN BE BOTHERED TO COME MEET THE GROOM.
Many climbers will fall to their death:
Many climbers may climb a treacherous mountain but not everyone will make it to the top. At any stage some will turn back or lose their grip and fall to their death, even when the summit is within sight.
Jesus said he who endures till the end will be saved. The person who denies himself to the end will be saved. Many will deny themselves but under severe provocation they may be tempted to lash out or join in and even if they are in sight of safety, if they failed to endure till the end, they will not be saved.
How can God be so cruel?
There may be those who think how can God be so cruel as to allow people to perish, to allow maidens who came but forgot to bring oil but then brought oil to perish?
The question of cruelty may not arise and it reflects your advanced false perception and logic that you think this question arises.
THE TRUTH IS THAT LIFE DOES NOT END WITH DEATH AND EXISTENCE IN ONE FORM OR ANOTHER, BE IT IN HELL, THE ANIMAL WORLD, GHOST REALM, HUMAN FORM OR HEAVEN REMAINS AND SO IF YOUR ACTIONS AND ATTITUDE WILLS DEATH TO YOURSELF AND OTHERS (YOU WANT TO HURT, HARM AND KILL OTHERS) THEN YOUR WISH WILL BE GRANTED AND YOU WILL PERISH. THE TROUBLE IS PEOPLE THINK PERISHING MAY BE QUITE FUN, QUITE OK WHEN IT IS ALWAYS DEADLY EVEN TORMENTING IN A WAY THEY CANNOT NOW IMAGINE. THEY ARE COMPLACENT THAT IT WILL NOT BE TOO BAD WHEN IT IS TORMENTING OR THEY ARE DELUDED THEY ARE GOING TO HEAVEN WHEN THEY ARE GOING THE OPPOSITE WAY.
How crass this world can be:
Apparently a Singaporean tourist returning from Chian, reflecting the Singaporean mentality, kept complaining about delays at the airport for him as a result of the earthquake not sparing a thought about the plight of victims.
DO NOT ASSUME PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD HAS CONSCIENCE. THERE ARE MANY WITH LITTLE OR NO CONSCIENCE, EVEN HIGH UP IN THE HIERARCHIES OF VARIOUS RELIGIONS.
THAT WHY YOU HAVE OIL BUBBLES.
The ugly Singaporean
INSIGHT DOWN SOUTH
By SEAH CHIANG NEE
Have affluent, educated Singaporeans become too self-centred and insensitive to other people’s plights? Can Singapore be considered a First World city with such boorishness? A mature, developed country isn’t defined only by wealth and education; it is also about humanity and concern for others.
JUSTIFIABLY or not, the disastrous Sichuan earthquake has sparked off a re-look here at a Singaporean characteristic that overshadows his economic achievement.
In a TV interview, a tourist who just returned unhurt complained angrily about his encounter with airport delay and telephone breakdown at a time when the Chinese were frantically rescuing people.
One viewer commented: “He kept complaining bitterly as if the whole world owed him an explanation about the airport delay.”
Another added: “the man was practically shouting at the camera. His behaviour was really shocking.”
Thanking on behalf of others:
Quote headline: Thank you. Generous Malaysians have donated 2.2 million to Star Myanmar fund.
Why is he so effusive in his thanks when he is not the recipient of the donations? Only those who have received donations can be truly thankful and it reflects glib or unthinking automatic thank you for him to say so without realizing it is unwarranted and insincere and he has false perception that will end in mad perception.
Why is he so eager to describe Malaysians as generous except to flatter or please others.
NO ONE CAN EXPRESS THANKS ON THE BEHALF OF OTHERS AND IT IS UP TO THE GRATEFUL RECIPIENT HIMSELF TO EXPRESS THANKS JUST AS NO ONE CAN GO TO HELL FOR YOU.
Disguising their crassness & lack of conscience:
For everyone who exhibit the crassness of this Singaporean tourist angrily flailing about inconvenience he suffered as a result of the earthquake there are many more who are hypocrites, who know there are social sanctions against lack of conscience and have learnt to hide and couch their crassness or lack of conscience behind a veneer of acted concern and civility.
No matter how well hidden by a veneer of concern, those who are discerning and God can see through without difficulty and they do not realize they are like ostriches hiding their heads in the sand, they are headed for punishment not just for lack of conscience but faking their possession of conscience.
Upmarket PJ & Being Shocked:
Quote MP Pua: “I'm shocked to see this. This place reminds me of the 1970s Viet-namese refugee camp in Sg Besi! It's shocking to learn that we still have problems like these in an upmarket city like Petaling Jaya,”
Comments: It goes to show that even opposition MPs are deluded. There is nothing up or down market about PJ and it is his false perception that will end in mad perception that PJ is up market. He is expressing his status consciousness that is not based on reason but based on force, on liking or stirring of his mental force attractively with regard to PJ as ‘high class’.
The fact that he said reality is shocking indicates he has a rosy perception of reality or presumption that has now been proved false (he is presumptuous and fallible) and it useless, false and harmful to self and others to stir up his mental force to be shocked. When you speak of shock you are not talking about reason that can be understood but you are talking about your mental force being stunned, fearful and disliking.
IF HE DID NOT BELIEVED WHAT HE SAID IS FULL OF MEANING HE WOULD NOT HAVE SAID IT, HE AND YOU MAY BE RIGHT IT IS MEANINGFUL OR WHAT IS SAID IS DELUDED AND ABOUT THE STIRRING OF MENTAL FORCE TO LIKE, DISLIKE, BE FEARFUL AND STUNNED, IN OTHER WORDS IT IS A COMMUNICATION OF FORCE OR EMOTION THAT IS BLIND, HAS NO UNDERSTANDABLE MEANING AND IS HARMFUL TO HIMSELF AND OTHERS, CONDITIONS HIMSELF AND OTHERS FURTHER TO FORCE.
Evidence of speculation driving oil prices:
Quote: Opec president Chakib Khelil said earlier this week that speculators were responsible for the price increases, not traditional supply and demand (he should know a thing or about oil and if he says speculators are responsible for price increases, it is unlikely he is talking nonsense. Thus Krugman does not realize he is flirting with kamma saying there is no oil bubble when there is a ‘whopping’ bubble to ape ordinary people’s language.).
Speculation that China would need to import more fuel in the aftermath of its earthquake also continued to drive prices, analysts said. (this statement is an admission of market leaders speculating to push up or down prices)
Oil investor T Boone Pickens forecast that prices would reach $150 this year. (Who is he, does he own refineries that need oil to be refined or is he buying oil to sell off for profit or loss or betting with oil?)
Last week, prices were supported by Goldman Sachs forecasting that oil would reach $141 a barrel later this year. (Goldman Sachs is not forecasting for free but for money and based on the often self fulfilling forecasts those who look to it as the ayatollah will buy or sell)
How speculation drives up prices:
Quote: Speculation that China would need to import more fuel in the aftermath of its earthquake also continued to drive prices, analysts said.
Based on the speculation that China will need more oil because of the earthquake which may not be true, speculators will come in to snap up oil anticipating demand and China and whoever else is genuinely in need of oil will be forced to pay more to secure that oil. When they speculate demand will drop, they will dump the oil they hold and even short oil, borrowing oil at current high prices to sell in the hope of buying back at a cheaper fallen price and pocketing the difference.
John Terry’s Instant karma:
By accounts, the abrasive combative Chelsea captain John Terry is ‘inconsolable’ after slipping and thus missing his penalty that would have won the European Champions cup for Chelsea.
It may not be an accident but swift karma because earlier he thought he was clever to disguise his spitting at close range of Man Utd’s Tevez. He pretended to use his sleeve to wipe his mouth as he approached Tevez but you could see him secretly spitting at Tevez and Tevez immediately used his hand to wipe away the spittle.
If he did not evilly spit at Tevez, something that can send him to hell, he might not have slipped and missed the penalty and Chelsea would have won.
George Soros: rocketing oil price is a bubble
What Soros, himself a speculator (with karma due him that is more serious than he and you think), says tallies with what I reasoned out that speculators are the devils at fault for driving up current oil prices.
Thus a person without formal economics education (me) can discern economic truth better than a professor of economics (Krugman).
According to a report in Australian newspaper, ‘the Persian Gulf is choked with supertankers filled with oil that no one wants to buy’ perhaps the missing inventory that Krugman asked, ‘where is the inventory?’
By Edmund Conway, Economics Editor
Last Updated: 1:40am BST 26/05/2008
Speculators are largely responsible for driving crude prices to their peaks in recent weeks and the record oil price now looks like a bubble, George Soros has warned.
The billionaire investor's comments came only days after the oil price soared to a record high of $135 a barrel amid speculation that crude could soon be catapulted towards the $200 mark.
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Mr Soros said that although the weak dollar, ebbing Middle Eastern supply and record Chinese demand could explain some of the increase in energy prices, the crude oil market had been significantly affected by speculation.
"Speculation... is increasingly affecting the price," he said. "The price has this parabolic shape which is characteristic of bubbles," he said.
· 'We face the most serious recession of our lifetime'
The comments are significant, not only because Mr Soros is the world's most prominent hedge fund investor but also because many experts have claimed speculation is only a minor factor affecting crude prices.
Oil prices stalled on Friday after their biggest one-day jump since the first Gulf War earlier in the week.
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At just over $130 a barrel, the price has doubled in around a year, causing misery for motorists and businesses.
However, Mr Soros warned that the oil bubble would not burst until both the US and Britain were in recession, after which prices could fall dramatically.
"You can also anticipate that [the bubble] will eventually correct but that is unlikely to happen before the recession actually reduces the demand.
"The rise in the price of oil and food is going to weigh and aggravate the recession."
The Bank of England recently warned that soaring energy and food costs would push inflation above its target range for most of the next 18 months, making it more unlikely that it will cut borrowing costs soon.
Mr Soros warns Britain is facing its worst economic storm in living memory, dwarfing those of the 1970s and early 1990s, with a housing slump and serious recession.
He said: "The dislocations will be greater [than in the 1970s] because you also have the implications of the house price decline, which you didn't have in the 1970s."
The warning undermines predictions that Britain will suffer only a brief and relatively painless recession, unlike the precipitous dives of previous years.
Mr Soros also warned that the Bank's inflation report represents a "Faustian pact", obliging it to keep interest rates high to control inflation, even as the economy is starting to slump.
"You had the nice decade," he said. "Now that is over and you are in a straitjacket."
Soros’ wrong view:
Quote Soros: "Markets play a very useful role and they are amoral, not immoral."
Comment: Markets are not amoral, they are immoral and so he has wrong view that the Buddha said is the way to hell or the animal womb not heaven.
Why are markets immoral?
Markets are never guided by genuine reason but driven by greed, it is a battle of greed with fear of losses between parties that are adversarial, it is a cutthroat world of cutting another’s throat or be cut, merciless and that is immoral not amoral that is sanitizing and justify market actions.
Whatever reason in market is planned or programmed reason or rules that once the trader adopts, he is a slave or robot obeying his investment or speculating or trading plan.
2008: a martian odyssey:
The above headline was applied in reference to the successful landing of a spacecraft on Mars.
No reason is involved in the fabrication of the headline only memorization of a previously catchy phrase ‘2001: a space odyssey’, searching for it in the person’s memory bank, substituting ‘space’ with ‘martian’ and you have a headline that you might think is a product of reasoning but it is a copycat headline based on memorizing, retrieval and substituting certain words in which reason plays no part but force as emotion, attraction for the headline 2001: a space odyssey because it sounds ‘wow’ to him and he wants to stir ‘wow’ in you and it may be inaccurate or false because that 2001 space odyssey and this martian ‘odyssey’ may bear little semblance.
Not as scrupulous as you think:
Even websites like BBC and august banks may not be as scrupulous as you think.
Because I had earlier read that the Dow closed down ahead of the long weekend and seeing the Dow quotation on BBC’s business page showing down, I was curious to know if it was Monday’s close or Friday’s close. Checking the market data which charted the index throughout the day there was nothing to state whether the chart showed Friday or Monday’s trading.
THUS IT IS PRESUMED THAT THE CHART SHOWED THE LATEST TRADING AND THIS WILL BE FINE ON MOST DAYS BUT IF THERE WAS A HOLIDAY ON MONDAY AND THE CHART DID NOT SPECIFY ITS DATE (FRIDAY) THE UNWARY MAY THINK IT WAS A CHART OF MONDAY’S TRADING WHEN IT WAS FRIDAY’S. THUS BBC IS CARELESS IN NOT STATING CLEARLY THE DATE OF TRADING ON ITS CHARTS.
Gritty Japanese continue yen carry trade:
It seems that even despite the volatile plunge of the US dollar that can wipe out any benefit from selling low interest yen for dollars which pay a higher interest, the Japanese investor, both amateur and professional, have continued to do.
This action may not be based on reason but it may be irrational, based on rote behaviour that is addictive and hard to shake off even when it becomes tormenting.
ONCE A PERSON HAS BECOME ADDICTED TO A RITUAL, HE FINDS IT HARD TO SHAKE OFF, JUST AS WARREN BUFFETT MAY BE ADDICTED TO FINDING BUSINESSES TO INVEST IN AND HIS WHOLE LIFE INVOLVES ESSENTIALLY REPLAYING HIS INVESTMENT STRATEGIES OVER AND OVER AGAIN, IT MAY NOT BE A RATIONAL DECISION OF JAPANESE INVESTORS TO CONTINUE TO YEN CARRY TRADE DESPITE TURBULENCE ON THE CURRENCY MARKETS BUT IT MAY REFLECT ADDICTION, IT IS A RITUAL THEY FIND HARD IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP EVEN WHEN IT IS SUICIDAL. WHY DO JAPANESE EAT POISONOUS PUFFER FISH AND COMMIT HARA KIRI?
