M. Vincent van Mechelen
NOTES OF THE METRIC MONTHS
FROM 52 TO 55 ASWW
To the
first note of the year
A BREACH OF THE WAR
Peace in a region ruled by Abraham religions is a breach of the war.
55.MSW-55th Late Southwest
ROYAL HEIR LINES
Royal Heir Lines are sexist by tradition: they have boys put on airs.
37.CEN-55th Mid-Southwest
AN UNGUIDED MISSILE
Wittgenstein's overall impact on philosophy is that of an
unguided missile: very impressive in part, little on the whole.
55.MSE-55th Early Southwest
A FREE COUNTRY
You can only find out if a country is a free country by not
behaving like a well-programmed mediocrity.
27.MNE-55th Late Southeast
SUPERNATURALISM A MENTAL DISORDER
Supernaturalism
is a mental disorder that contravenes the laws of nature and does not
even occur in nature, but Vatican Catholics and other supernaturalists
of that Ilk should be treated with care and compassion.
55.MSE-55th Mid-Southeast
SAVING GRACE
Religion has the good quality of seldom fooling any one person
all of the time; and the saving grace of never fooling all
of the people all of the time.
46.MNW-55th Early Southeast
THE RIGHT STRESS
I hope the right stress may give you a buffet in the stomach
rather than a buffet.
55.MNW-55th Central Month
QUALITY AND ALTERNATIVE
There's nothing clever in creating quality without an alternative;
and there's nothing clever in creating an alternative without
quality. The real art is to create an alternative with quality,
and thus to offer both.
54.ENE-55th Late Northwest
CAELEBS, CAELIBIS, CAELIBATUS
"To live is to be alone", alliterated the celibate etymologist
tongue in cheek.
37.MSE-55th Mid-Northwest
GENDERIZED LANGUAGE
A person speaking a genderized language thinks sex night and day.
'E,
sorry, he or she sees and feels it everywhere.
42.LSE-55th Early Northwest
A QUEEN'S ADVICE
If coming too soon is your problem, just follow Queen Victoria's
advice: "Close your eyes and think of England".
45.LNE-55th Late Northeast
THEODEMONISM
Theism, the belief in one or more gods, is hand in supernatural
glove with demonism, the belief in a devil or in other demons.
46.MNE-55th Mid-Northeast
THE INVISIBLE TEN DIGITS
IN THE YEAR 13132
The first day of their year is arbitrary, the starting point
of their era is arbitrary, and so is the base of their counting:
2000 denary is an arbitrary 13132 senary.
45.MNW-55th Early Northeast
ADULTHOOD
Adulthood is the capacity to free yourself of the myths
and prejudices of your upbringing or to be grateful for
the lack of them.
27.MNE-54th Late Southwest
LONELINESS
Loneliness has always been the fate of the truly original mind,
and it will, even more so, be the fate of the relevantly
original mind.
45.CEN-54th Mid-Southwest
FOOTNOTES TO POETRY
Without footnotes some poems, for example, by Ezra Pound and
T.S. Eliot, are unreadable; with footnotes they are indigestible
(if not illegible).
45.LNE-54th Early Southwest
PIGEONHOLED
In languages such as English, but more so Dutch and German, and even more
so French —the four languages
i
speak— people are continuously pigeonholed by their genitals.
47.ENE-54th Late Southeast
'THOU SHALT NOT KILL'
The Biblical injunction is not 'Thou shalt not kill', as
many people have believed, but 'Thou shalt not kill', for
on Biblical grounds it is not at all wrong in itself to kill or
to murder; what is wrong is to do something that the Supreme
Authority has expressly arrogated to Himself.
The Bible is full of cases in which that Authority slaughters
people or peoples that feel or think differently from Himself,
or in which such slaughter is promised to them.
54.CEN-54th Mid-Southeast
NOT A SNOWBALL'S CHANCE IN HEAVEN
According to the Bible the temperature in 'hell' is 445 centigrades,
and the temperature in 'heaven' 525, give or take a few hundred
degrees. There is not a snowball's chance in heaven that such a
book will succeed in substituting rubbish for reason forever.
54.ESE-54th Early Southeast
YOUR OWN AGENDA
It is convenient to have your own diary;
it is even more convenient to have your own agenda.
53.LSW-54th Central Month
ALL THE RAGE
All the rage is at best nothing and at worst
the precipice of lemmings.
54.LNW-54th Late Northwest
STONES IN ENGLAND
It is still a mystery to me that all stones in England weigh
14 pounds. I would have expected 12 pounds plus 8 ounces.
41.LNW-54th Mid-Northwest
ROBBING PETER TO PAY MARY
In an abortive attempt to defend themselves against accusations
of sexism Christianists may claim that 'God their Father' does
not only have masculine but also feminine qualities, 'such as
love or tenderness'. Thus they rob Peter to pay Mary.
54.LNE-54th Early Northwest
THE COLLAPSE
OF RELIGIOUS TOTALITARIANISM
Just like the Marxist-Leninist totalitarian state in its heyday,
the Christian, Islamic or other
religionist
state is, all
supernaturalist
claims to the contrary notwithstanding, man-made;
and being made by human beings it can be undone by human beings.
A few principled dissidents or isolated groups may initiate the
collapse of religious totalitarianism and
exclusivism,
even in the face of seemingly unsurmountable difficulties and sufferings,
as evidenced by the rise and fall of Marxism-Leninism.
46.MSE-54th Late Northeast
A BETTER PERSON THAN I
Anyone in the world may be a better person than
i
am, but if so, then because
'e
acts and feels and speaks and thinks more closely in accordance with the
TRINP values
(truth,
relevance,
inclusivity,
neutrality and
personhood),
while not at the same time espousing or promoting a belief
that directly or indirectly causes them to be disregarded.
53.ESW-54th Mid-Northeast
HUMANISTS
Humanists are people who look forward to the next century ...
of the Christianists.
53.LSW-54th Early Northeast
ARBITRARY
Nothing arbitrary will last forever; no Gregorian calendar, no standard
spelling unrelated to grammar or pronunciation, no state borders
thru
natural or national lands.
53.MSW-53rd Late Southwest
RIGHTS AND BANKNOTES
Rights are like banknotes: the more of them you print on paper,
the bigger the inflation.
38.MSW-53rd Mid-Southwest
PETERING OUT
The faith of Saint Peter is now petering out.
42.MSW-53rd Early Southwest
BISEXUAL
I used to think
i
was bisexual, but now i'm sure i only fancy nonsmokers.
46.LNW-53rd Late Southeast
HUMANS AND CHICKENS
The most noticeable thing that distinguished Plato and Plato's
followers from chickens was that they had flattened nails.
47.MNE-53rd Mid-Southeast
NOT TOO PUNCTILIOUS
I don't over-punctiliously adhere to the letter of the Bible:
sometimes i drink with publicans and eat with Christians.
44.MNE-53rd Early Southeast
A VIRTUOUS MAN
A virtuous man is possessed of a penis, not by one.
47.CEN-53rd Central Month
A MAKE-BELIEVE COUNTRY
Quite a few Canadians want to force the whole of Canada to
believe in the so-called "supreme power" of a god named "God".
Canada as a maple-leave country does not suffice for them: it
must also remain or become a make-believe country.
36.MSW-53rd Late Northwest
MAY THE SHEEP ...
May the sheep that leaps over the ditch not follow the flock but
the right reason.
53.MNW-53rd Mid-Northwest
HISTORY
There are two kinds of people who love history: first, those who
want to maintain history; and second, those who want to make
history.
53.ENW-53rd Early Northwest
THE VALUE OF TRUTH IN SUPERNATURALISM
Writers are able to make untrue statements on paper now, and writers were
able to make untrue statements on paper one, two or three thousand years
ago. For
supernaturalists
who believe in something because it is written in a one-, two- or
three-thousand-year-old book,
truth
has no more value than a piece of paper; no more value than a piece of
Bible paper, no more value than a piece of Quran paper.
48.LSE-53rd Late Northeast
VWLS
F Y WNT T RD THS, Y'LL HV T NSRT VWLS.
48.LNW-53rd Mid-Northeast
EVERYONE AN EGOIST?
(Note of the same month
at TRINPsite)
If everyone is an egoist, then let us be or become one of those
egoists who are pleased to see others have as much as they have
themselves and one of those egoists who feel better by also
showing consideration for beings that do not belong to their own
group, community or species.
36.MNW-53rd Early Northeast
LIFE UNDER THE DIVINE PRIMACY
(Note of the same month
in Deze Taal)
For real theists life is only worth living because they believe God
exists; for real atheists life is only worth living because the belief
in God exists.
39.ESE-52nd Late Southwest
ECLECTICISM
(Note of the same month
at TRINPsite)
Eclecticism is a self-defeating or parasitic attitude, because
if everyone were and had been an eclectic, no-one would have had
a source to draw from in the first place.
39.MSE-52nd Mid-Southwest
MORALLY, KANT
NO PHILOSOPHER
(Note of the same month
in Deze Taal)
Morally speaking, Kant should not have been allowed to become a
philosopher according to his own morality, for if everyone, like him,
had chosen philosophy to be his profession, humankind would never have
been able to survive.
36.LNE-52nd Early Southwest
EXTREMIST SOCIETY
(Note of the same month
at TRINPsite)
As the differences in income and wealth grow more and more
obscene, those without the billions and without the millions are
prepared or even 'forced' to go to greater and greater brutal
lengths to capture their fair or equally unfair share of
material affluence.
It is the increasingly violent predicament of an economically
extremist
society.
52.LSE-52nd Late Southeast
LIFE
(Note of the same month
at TRINPsite)
Life is the art of trying to function now
and of finishing with satisfaction later.
52.MSE-52nd Mid-Southeast
Original Notes Nine to Fourteen Lost
The Notes of the Metric Month from the 52nd Mid-Southeast
Month (with the
Model name Southern Mid-Yule)
to the 53rd Early Northeast Month (with the Model name Northern
Early Yule) were published but not saved, as this document did not yet
exist then.
Instead of these six Notes, four Notes of the same month which were
published at
TRINPsite are shown, while of two
Notes of the same month published at MVVM-site in
Deze Taal the translations
are given here.
First Eight Notes Nonexistent
No Notes of the Metric Month were published on MVVM-site from
the 52nd Early Northeast Month (with the
Model name Northern Early
Yule) until the 52nd Early Southeast Month (with the Model name
Southern Early Yule)
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