M. Vincent van Mechelen
NOTES OF THE METRIC MONTHS
FROM 72 TO 75 ASWW
To the
first note of the year
NOTTY'S PROVERB
—"Notty, it's clear you didn't do your homework, yesterday.
I asked you to write down ten English proverbs.
They teach you wise lessons."
—"Yes, i was just starting to last night, because i know they
teach you wise lessons.
Then, i thought i'd better wait, because people say, 'Soon learnt,
soon forgotten.'"
75.ESW-75th Late Southwest
THE MORE HUMANS THE MORE IDIOTS TOO
With human overpopulation continuing unabated, even acceleratng at times
and places, this planet may be enlightened by a few more geniuses, but at
the same time it will be burdened by an ever-increasing number of idiots
that have no idea that Earth is or will be overpopulated, and that have
even less of an idea of what overpopulation causes to this planet,
especially in combination with overconsumption (including the wrong
consumption).
Pandemics, such as the corona pandemic, caused by an enormously increased mobility and population density, and by the way people treat animals, is
only one example.
The mobility is both a result of a larger population and of an increase
in the mobility, if not excessive mobility, of individuals.
The density of population follows immediately from the increase of
population in a limited area.
The role of animals must be looked at from the point of view of a wrong
human consumption pattern followed by too many people.
75.ESW-75th Mid-Southwest
"ME USING YOUR RIGHT?"
If you are shown disrespect, or even treated disrespectfully, for having
no or too few children, just answer: "You want me to make use of
your right to overpopulate this planet (and contribute to the
destruction of nonhuman nature, and endanger the future of human
civilization in its wake)?"
75.LSE-75th Early Southwest
LUCKILY, THE DIVINE IS
SAFELY FAR AWAY
If Jesus of Nazareth called at the front door of a Christian family
—in cognito, that is— the majority of Christianists would
think, "how gay" or "what a faggot he looks", because of his long hair,
for instance, and they would be sure after they heard that the man at
their door was thirty-three years old, still unmarried and without
children.
The majority of the remaining minority would not be exclusively
heterosexual themselves.
75.ENW-75th Late Southeast
"CORONA?"
"Please, don't mention human overpopulation and excessive mobility, as
the two main causes of pandemics. Talk to you at the next one."
75.MSE-75th Mid-Southeast
IN THE LAND OF ALLITERATION
In the land of alliteration there are only men of merit, no women of merit.
The others who may similarly be praised are worthy women, not worthy men.
73.ENW-75th Early Southeast
VALUES OR WHIMS
Steadfast
normists
have core values,
theocentrists
have their God's whims.
75.LNW-75th Central Month
SURPRISE IN, SURPRISE OUT
Alfred Tennyson wrote a New Year poem entitled "Ring Out, Wild Bells".
It counts no fewer than fifteen Ring out's and ten Ring
in's, which culminate in Ring in the Christ that is to be.
It was written in the year 1850 of the Christianist Era, the same year in
which Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland
by Alexandrina Victoria Hanover, the head of state of that country and at
the very same time of the Anglican Church as well.
Hanover is also known as 'Queen Victoria'.
(See
Ring Out, Clear Bells for more
information.)
75.ENW-75th Late Northwest
A CONFUSED DADDY
— "Daddy is growing old, he's getting more confused every day.
This morning he said that we live in the Western Hemisphere, and that
Canada is in the Eastern Hemisphere."
— "I can't believe it! Did he say that? He's losing every
Eurocentric notion of reality, isn't he?"
75.ENW-75th Mid-Northwest
HETERO- AND HOMOSEXUALITY
DO NOT EXIST
If we confine ourselves to sexually mature human beings and, to keep it
simple, equate love with loving to have or having sex,
then there are men who love men and/or women, women who love men and/or
women, and anyone with a body between that of a 100% man and of a 100%
woman that loves and/or is loved.
Hence, if sexually attracted at all, men who are (also) attracted to women
are gynophile, and so are women.
Women who are (also) attracted to men are androphile, and so are men.
Hetero-, bi- and homosexuality are pseudopredicates (presented as
properties but actually relations), just like cordate- and renateness:
they are theoretical constructs.
It is precisely because there are men who love men and women who love women
that homosexuality does not exist; precisely because there are men who love
women and women who love men that heterosexuality does not exist.
The androphile and gynophile relations of love certainly do.
To put it bluntly: homosexuality does not exist because there are men who
love men and women who love women.
The former are androphile, the latter gynophile (exclusively or as well).
74.ESW-75th Early Northwest
"ANGLOPHILE?"
"No,
i'm not anglophile,
i'm androphile!
That's much pleasanter, because by being gynophile as well, you've got
the whole of humanity.
What do you get by just being anglophile?"
75.ENE-75th Late Northeast
THE ALCOHOLIC'S
SIX GREGORIAN MONTHS
Dry January, fake February, remorseful March, eight in April,
more in May, and drunk in June.
75.ENE-75th Mid-Northeast
A NATURAL NEW YEAR
The natural New Year (one of two or four options) starts at the Northern
Winter Solstice, not some entirely arbitrary ten days later, as zanily
believed in and zealously celebrated by Gregorian Christianists and their
fellow travelers.
75.ENE-75th Early Northeast
A CULTURE-DE-SAC
A culture whose movement is petering out, and that is not capable of
finding a truly and relevantly new way, is a culture-de-sac.
43.MSE-74th Late Southwest
NOT EVEN WITH A SIXTEEN-FOOT POLE
I am not trying to kill the culture of ten-fingered fetishists — the
old generation will just have to pass away eventually.
I am not even trying to touch my contemporary 'denarians' with a
sixteen-foot pole.
73.MNE-74th Mid-Southwest
VYING FOR ABRAHAMIC EXCLUSIONISM
In those countries in the world where Christianity and Islam compete or
fight for political domination, they also tend to vie with each other
to show off their Abrahamic exclusionism, especially towards human beings
that are not exclusively cis-heterosexual.
69.MNE-74th Early Southwest
NOTTY'S REGULAR KNOWLEDGE
AND IRREGULAR SNOW
— "Notty, it's clear you didn't do your homework, yesterday.
To know is an irregular verb: it is know, knew,
known!"
— "I'm very sorry, but yesterday it was snowing the whole day, and
it was just not the usual, regular snow.
It actually snew so heavily and continuously i had to keep on clearing
the driveway and the sidewalk until it was time to go to bed.
If it hadn't snown so much, i would've had enough time to do my
homework, and then i would've knowed it."
72.LSW-74th Late Southeast
HUMAN CIVILIZATION
Human civilization: has it been a failing success or a successful failure
so far?
73.MNE-74th Mid-Southeast
FROM SODOM AND GOMORRAH
TO AUSCHWITZ AND TREBLINKA
When the hate preacher
Steven Anderson
was banned from entering the Netherlands and all other Schengen countries
part of this person's reply was:
"I was going to the Netherlands for the benefit of the people of the
Netherlands.
I was going there to preach the gospel, and [now] they're
[they=the Dutch authorities, presumably] going to reject a
Bible-believing preacher for coming and preaching the word of God ...
If you [you=the Dutch authorities, presumably] continue down
this godless path and become another Sodom and Gomorrah, then you're gonna
end up the way Sodom and Gomorrah ended up."
And if the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by a natural disaster refuses
to come back by itself, this promoter of Christianist terrorism will go all
out to have human beings themselves make Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka
come back.
Only the ones to be exterminated may not all be the same.
74.MNW-74th Early Southeast
SDG? AND SPE?
SDG (Sustainable Development Goals)? Very good!
No SPE (Sustainable Population Equilibrium)? Very bad!
Then, the elephant in the room demands SPE-cial attention.
73.LSE-74th Central Month
WOOFS WITHOUT A WARP
I don't hate dogs, but i just don't like the woofs of people who never
think of what they need as a base.
It's all woofs without a warp.
73.MSE-74th Late Northwest
NOTHING MAD OR MAGICAL
Whether it concerns stroking a dog on the head, stroking a cat on the head,
sucking a man, or tonguing a woman: all are places which the dog, the cat,
the man and the woman in question cannot reach at all, or only with great
difficulty — with their paws in the case of dogs and cats, with their
mouths in the case of men and women.
So long as the dog, cat, man or woman is open to it, the other feels in the
mood, and all are prudent, there is nothing mad or magical about these very
social physical acts.
74.ENW-74th Mid-Northwest
ROW BOAT?
A gang of thugs were having ferocious arguments and making a lot of noise
somewhere in a row of houseboats.
When later the police arrived at the row boat in question, the gang had
already disappeared in a rowboat.
73.LSE-74th Early Northwest
ALSO THREE SEXES ON EARTH
You do not have to travel all the way to Hyperyinyang to find a planet
with three instead of two sexes.
Just visit the most popular clothes stores on Earth and you will find
clothes for men, for women and for walking advertizing pillars.
But i could be mistaken: the advertizing pillars look suspiciously like
men.
74.ENE-74th Late Northeast
THE NUMBER OF IRRATIONAL PEOPLE
A: "I hate the way some mathematicians treat people like
mere numbers."
B: "That surprises me.
You as a rational person should be the last one to complain about
that.
Doesn't it mean there are an infinite number of rational people in
the universe?"
A: "Yes, and that's why the number of irrational people would be even
larger than that!"
73.ESW-74th Mid-Northeast
THOU SHALT NOT LIE A LIE
I always thought there was a Judeo-Christianist Commandment
Thou shalt not lie (or words to that effect) and that it was by
itself a sensible and moral statement despite its arbitrary position in a
haphazard denary hodgepodge of ten commandments.
However, the presentation of the (eighth or ninth) commandment in
this way is a fabrication, for the correct formulation of the
Commandment is something like Thou shalt not bear false
witness against thy neighbor.
The phrase Thou shalt not lie leaves out in giving evidence,
and the phrase Thou shalt not lie in giving evidence leaves out
against thy neighbor.
This is not the same as Do not tell lies, even not the same
as Do not tell lies about others; not the same as Do not accuse
anyone falsely, even not the same as You shall not give false
testimony.
Instead, Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor is
a very specific commandment for the members of a tribe that
probably too often witnessed against one of their own lot by giving false
evidence.
The concern shown in this order is not universal truth by any manner of
means; it is a particular type of falsehood (perjury) which damages the
reputation and undermines the unity and strength of one particular
community.
73.LSW-74th Early Northeast
RETROFITTING IN BIOLOGY
To claim that animals copulate in order to perpetuate the 'lives' of their
species or individual genes is a fucking shameless piece of unscientific
retrofitting in biology; a piece of after-the-fact thinking in which the
fact will indeed be the maintenance of the species or genes but in which
the thinking (if any) before or during the act of copulation was about
something entirely different, and a lot less lofty.
(The animals that use a large number of children in something irresponsible
like demographic warfare copulate in order to perpetuate the life of a
religious or other ideology which knows no natural equilibrium, something
biologists should not be fond of either.
A similar example is women thinking of England during sexual intercourse.)
72.LSW-73rd Late Southwest
REREADABLE
Letters, stories and books of long-term interest are not just readable:
they are rereadable.
73.LSE-73rd Mid-Southwest
WHY NOT manimpotence.ru?
Part of the (until now) never-ending struggle against Russian-Ukrainian or
Ukrainian-Russian Internet abuse is the phenomenon of
referral spam.
A large part of it you recognize immediately by its
ru extension: http://company-such.ru/ and
https://company-so.ru/.
But why do several websites with a ru extension promoted in this
way suddenly have to be interrupted by https://man followed by
impotence followed by .com/?
Why not be honest and use the extension ru in this case too:
https://manimpotence.ru?
(I know — everyone knows — that
traditionally traditional Russian men
cherish not only their good but also their bad traditions, and
that alcoholism is one of them.
However, Shakespeare told us already that loads of alcohol may provoke the
desire but will take away the performance.)
Alas, you just can't rely on such Internet abusers.
When it comes to building contemporary trust in respectful coexistence,
they're all impotent.
73.MSE-73rd Early Southwest
DROWNING SOCCER PLAYERS
Parents or guardians who find it more important that their children can
play soccer or 'football' than that they can swim have a screw loose,
unless, perhaps, they live in the middle of the desert.
Those who are on the ball will teach kids to swim first.
73.MSE-73rd Late Southeast
A VATICAN AGAINST DIVORCE
The Vatican, with Vatican-Catholic followers in its wake, is vehemently
opposed to divorce, epecially the divorce between Church and State,
judging from its ubiquitous and eternal support of state religionism.
It is opposed to divorce, provided that the State does not interfere in
Church matters or matters the Church claims to be Church matters but which
are public matters in general.
(When it concerns the appointments of priests, and more so the payment of
income and property taxes, it is actually in favor of total separation.)
73.LNW-73rd Mid-Southeast
THINK THRICE
Think thrice before you call something "alliteration":
think twice does not alliterate, think thrice does.
So, people should rather think thrice.
72.MSW-73rd Early Southeast
EXCESSIVE IRRELEVANTISM
IN GERMAN
These are examples of excessive sexual irrelevantism in the German
language: jede*_jeder hat ..., Künstler*innen und
Politiker*innen haben ..., Teamer_innen.
(The * does not refer to any footnote and the spellings used may be
* or *_, if not just _.)
The more traditional sexual irrelevantisms are found in: jede und jeder
ist willkommen (unless sex happens to be relevant in the context
concerned) and junge Künstlerinnen und Künstler.
Supposedly, the * must underline that the reference is both to
males and females females
and males, as in Lesben, Schwule, Bisexuelle, Trans*- und
Inter*-Menschen, but this suggests that bisexuals could only be women
(or men?).
Well, this irrelevantist and ugly use of what should be a natural language
does leave some room for Innenarchitekt*inneninnenarbeit.
May these interior decorators and all other German speakers use their
talents to make their language less irrelevant and more pleasant to listen
to and look at, regardless of sex or gender!
73.LNW-73rd Central Month
A COUNTRY VIEW, NOT A WORLDVIEW
A so-called 'world(-)view' which is Israel-,
Arabia-, America- or any-particular-country-centered is a normative
monstrosity.
Only a 'country view' may be one-particular-country-centered or, in
traditional terms, patriotic.
If what is supposed to be a worldview manifests tribalism or nationalism,
it is not a (religion or nonreligious) worldview but an exclusivistic
Isreali, Arabian, American or any such country view.
73.MNW-73rd Late Northwest
FIVE WORKING RULES (5)
When applied to my own situation, the 'Ninth
Commandment' which led to Armani's success is my fifth working
rule: Be wary of accepting outside funding, in case it compromises your
work.
59.ENE-73rd Mid-Northwest
FIVE WORKING RULES (4)
When applied to my own situation, the 'Eighth
Commandment' which led to Armani's success is my fourth working
rule: Do not rely on the media to represent your vision accurately.
(The Eighth Commandment is, more specifically, about the fashion
press.)
59.ENE-73rd Early Northwest
FIVE WORKING RULES (3)
When applied to my own situation, the 'Fourth
Commandment' which led to Armani's success is my third
working rule: Stick to what you believe in, even when you are
out of step with the rest.
59.ENE-73rd Late Northeast
FIVE WORKING RULES (2)
When applied to my own situation, the 'Third
Commandment' which led to Armani's success is my second
working rule: 'Success does not require genius.
Roll your sleeves up.'
I am not sure about Armani's formulation here.
I think the rule ought to read: "Long-term success requires
long-term diligence.
Genius or talent will not suffice".
59.ENE-73rd Mid-Northeast
FIVE WORKING RULES (1)
When applied to my own situation, the 'First
Commandment' which led to Armani's success is my first
working rule: Never compromise your vision.
59.ENE-73rd Early Northeast
ONE NATION, NEUTRAL AND INCLUSIVE
Should you ever be forced to choose between One Nation Under the
God of the Abraham Religions and One Nation, Neutral and
Inclusive, choose the latter for the good of everyone, real or
imaginary descendants of any Abraham included.
60.LNE-72nd Late Southwest
CREATIVITY VERSUS CREATIONISM
What i witness these days is a lack of creativity and innovation, even
experimentation, in denominationalism.
Too many people fancy a return to the withered roots of the Abrahamic
religions.
The creativity of those people consists of nothing else and nothing more
than the return to the unconditional belief in creationism.
59.ENW-72nd Mid-Southwest
WHAT ABOUT CHERRY-PICKING?
"Does He hate or doesn't He hate cherry picking?" That's the question!
(The crucial question is whether the God of the Bible, which combines the
attributes of Adolf Hitler and Albert Schweitzer under one cover, hates
or loves cherry-picking.)
71.CEN-72nd Early Southwest
THE ONE PEACE IS NOT THE OTHER
There is the peace which may be enjoyed and there is the peace which
must be imposed, such as the peace of Koranic obedience and of Islamic
submission.
72.CEN-72nd Mid-Southeast
TALK WITHOUT A CANE
As he was an old-fashioned old schoolmaster, he could not talk without a
cane.
40.LSW-72nd Early Southeast
THE EROTIC MIDDLE PATH
There is a middle path between behaving like a sex-addicted lecher and
behaving like an erotophobic prude.
57.ENE-72nd Central Month
PIOUS AND OF IRREPROACHABLE CONDUCT
This year there were 1,636 Iranians who registered as presidential
candidates.
All of them had to believe in Allah and in the official religion of the
Islamic Republic of Iran.
After a screening by the Guardian Council almost all men were eliminated.
(137 women tried too, but a woman will not be deemed eligible in any
case, however pious she may be.)
Among the six left over was Ebrahim Raisi, one of the most immoral
criminals of Iranian history.
In 1988, under the reign of Sayyid Khomeini, first Supreme Fuehrer of Iran,
this exemplary Muslim (one of four judges then) had thousands of prisoners
of the political opposition slaughtered.
72.LNW-72nd Late Northwest
THE TIP OF THE ISLAMIC ICEBERG
The Islamic State organization in Iraq and Syria that throws real
homosexuals, bisexuals or heterosexuals purported
to be homosexual from tall buildings and then stones
them in case they might not yet be dead is only the tip of the Islamic
iceberg.
71.LSE-72nd Mid-Northwest
THE LATEST EXECUTIVE ORDER
Just before the coffee break this morning the President signed
his latest executive order: any man marrying for the fourth time
after noon today will get his wife for free.
72.MNE-72nd Early Northwest
A 'MORE INCLUSIVE' RELIGION
Those who nowadays still strive for a Christianity or an Islam which is
more liberal, tolerant or inclusive (read "less
exclusivistic") resemble the people who used to go to
work by horse and wanted much faster horses at a time that the car had
already been invented.
71.LNW-72nd Late Northeast
THE GREATER THE LESS
The great-greater the grandchild the less left of the umpteenth
great-grandparent.
72.ENE-72nd Mid-Northeast
TOTAL-BIBLE LITERALISTS
Total-Bible literalists are, by direct implication, the most
supernaturalistic and, by indirect
implication, the most exclusivistic of Christianists.
Yet, literally these so-called 'literalists' do not exist, for they will
always cherry-pick the passages from the Bible they find attractive and
enforceable, while keeping silent about the passages which
even in the eyes of not entirely brainwashed members of their own flock
are silly or pathological, if not blatantly immoral.
71.LNW-72nd Early Northeast
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