IMAGE OF WHAT I BELIEVE IS A DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN CHESS MASTER & PATZER
Monday, May 19, 2008
Saturday, May 17, 2008
LASKER BOOK
I'M VERY VERY SURE THIS IS FROM LASKER's BOOK MANUAL OF CHESS:
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FINAL REFLECTIONS ON EDUCATION IN CHESS.
Education in Chess goes on in a most haphazard fashion. Most Chess players slowly climb to a certain rather low level and stay there. Of players to whom a master can give odds of a Queen there are millions; players of greater skill number probably no more than a quarter of a million. If we reckon the number of Rook players as a hundred and fifty thousand, of Knight players as fifty thousand, of Pawn and two-move players as forty thousand, of pawn and move players as nine thousand, and the number of those to whom no master can allow odds, as one thousand, we are possibly not very far wrong. Now let us consider the efforts made to attain this result: a literature of many thousand volumes, hundreds, maybe thousands, of Chess columns in widely read newspapers and magazines, lectures, tournaments, tournament books, courses of instruction, matches in the clubs and between clubs and cities and countries, by correspondence, by telegraph and telephone, thousands of coffee - houses, where spectators, amid lively gossip, look on, make notes, analyze - truly an imposing expenditure.
One should not take these facts too easily. Certainly, in spite of its capacities, Chess is only a game and not to be classed with business, science, technology, not to speak of religion, philosophy or the arts. No one desires to see players devote to Chess such time as they need for serious purposes. The waste of time in Chess would not matter, were it not a symptom of a sickness that has befallen our culture.
We have learnt how to organise manufacturing plants, but our general education, our mental work, our economy of ideals are not better than our education in Chess.
I will here not wail. I will only illuminate a connection, even though rapidly. Chess, from its very inception, has had coherence with Life.
Let us assume that a master who follows a good method, say, the method of this book, strives to educate a young man ignorant of Chess to the level of one who, if conceded any odds, would surely come out the winner. How much time would the teacher need for this achievement? I think that I am correct in making the following calculation:
Rules of Play and Exercises 5 hrs.
Elementary Endings 5 hrs.
Some Openings 10 hrs.
Combination 20 hrs.
Position Play 40 hrs.
Play and Analysis 120 hrs.
Even if the young man has no talent at all, by following the above course he would advance to the class specified. Compare with this possibility, the reality. In fact, there are a quarter of a million Chess amateurs who devote to Chess at least two hundred hours ever year and of these only a thousand, after a lifetime of study, attain the end. Without losing myself in calculations, I believe I am safe in voicing the opinion that our efforts in Chess attain only a hundredth of one per cent of their rightful result.
Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values. In Mathematics and in Physics the results arrived at are still worse than in Chess. Is there a tendency to keep the bulk of the people stupid? For governments of an autocratic type the foolishness of the multitude has always been an asset. Possibly, also the mediocre who happen to be in authority follow the same policy. This motif, it is true, is not predominating in Chess. The bad state of education in Chess is due entirely to our backwardness.
Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized, simply because it is not important enough. If you load your memory, you should know why. Memory is too valuable to be stocked with trifles. Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting most of what I had learned or read, and since I succeeded in this I have acquired a certain ease and cheer which I should never again like to be without. If need be, I can increase my skill in Chess, if need be I can do that of which I have no idea at present. I have stored little in my memory, but I can apply that little, and it is of good use in many and varied emergencies. I keep it in order, but resist every attempt to increase its dead weight.
You should keep in mind no names, nor numbers, nor isolated incidents, not even results, but only methods. The method is plastic. It is applicable in every situation. The result, the isolated incident, is rigid, because bound to wholly individual conditions. The method produces numerous results; a few of these will remain in our memory, and as long as they remain few, they are useful to illustrate and to keep alive the rules which order a thousand results. Such useful results must be renewed from time to time just as fresh food has to be supplied to a living organism to keep it strong and healthy. But results useful in this manner have a living connection with rules, and these again are discovered by applying a live method: the whole of this organisation must have life, more than that -- a harmonious life.
This harmonious life stems from life; life is generated only by life. He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess -- artificial theories, supported by few instances and unheld by an excess of human wit; the habit of playing with inferior opponents; the custom of avoiding difficult tasks; the weakness of uncritically taking over variations or rules discovered by others; the vanity which is self-sufficient; the incapacity for admitting mistakes; in brief, everything that leads to a standstill or to anarchy.
Acquisition of harmonious education is comparable to the production and the elevation of an organism harmoniously built. The one is fed by blood, the other one by the spirit; but Life, equally mysterious, creative, powerful, flows through either. This comparison is no mere rhetorical imagery; it is a programme.
True, this programme, valid for all education, is in no way restricted to Chess; only a second postulate added to the above singles out Chess among all other things to be taught. It is this: to lead the pupil along the paths of the theory of Steinitz.
This theory has a history which the pupil should strive to understand because it lifts the veil a little from the mystery of human character; this theory has a meaning which became manifest after a hard contest with competing theories and won authority through a celebrated world's championship match; this theory has connections with profound problems; this theory asks the pupil to think for himself and to construct his own table of values and to keep it constantly, vigilantly, in order; this theory demands of him boldness and caution and force and economy and thus becomes to him a model for actions outside of Chess.
The road to this education requires good teachers -- masters of Chess who at the same time are geniuses of teaching. But it pays to go along this road for it leads to a country of men who judge independently, act boldly and aspire after noble ideals.
How should these teachers follow their avocation? In introducing young men into the game in the right manner by lectures, good books, by live play with their pupils, by assisting at matches of the pupils and making notes and comments on the good and weak points of the games played; in short, by thus facilitating the thinking of their pupil without doing violence to it. The ways in which a good teacher may do efficient work are manifold and varied.
The Chess world has the task of breeding such teachers and, as soon as this is accomplished, to support them in their efforts. Thus the Chess-world would ease the hard life of the Chess-masters who must make a profession of Chess provided they want to do their best for Chess. But who wants to stop half-way? Who would want these Chess-masters who have the capacity for excellent teaching in them to become mediocre in Chess only in order to make them mediocre in some other profession? The function of a Chess-master, who would be principally a Chess-teacher, is useful and pleasing. It is to the individual credit of Chess that in other domains of human activity, at least up to the present, teachers of the above type are not even possible.
On the Future of the Theory of Steinitz.
It is easy to mould the theory of Steinitz into mathematical symbols by inventing a kind of Chess, the rules and regulations of which are themselves expressed by mathematical symbols. The Japanese game of Go is very nearly what I mean. In such a game the question, whether thorough analysis would confirm the theory of Steinitz or not, presumably could be quickly solved because the power of modern mathematics is exceedingly great.
The instant that this solution is worked out, humanity stands before the gate of an immense new science which prophetic philosophers have called the mathematics or the physics of contest.
The contests fought nowadays by men -- war, diplomatic negotiation, competition in manufacture, disputes in the press, to name just a few -- are conducted very amateurishly. That wars should appear to us a necessity is proof of our stupidity. True, humanity has need of a test for progress, for right, for soundness of ethics in human affairs, but that need can be satisfied in other and more efficient ways than by war. To make this evident is difficult only because men do not want to know the truth. But this task will be an easy one as soon as the science of contest attains recognition.
To outlaw war will be possible because humanity has a wealth of efficient and useful means to fill the gap that would be left. The competition between research workers, inventors, discoverers, artists, statesmen causes the flow of blood in the body of culture. And this competition will retain its vigour till many centuries after the time that Victor Hugo pictures, when cannons will have been stored in museums alongside of the instruments of torture to serve as memorials of a vanished barbaric epoch.
The mathematics of Chess does not, it is true, solve the problem of comprehending the contests of Life, but it sets that problem in precise terms and points to a solution. There the leverage will be supported whence investigators will set scientific research into motion. The first step is always the essential one. With the law of the lever by Archimedes came statics, with the law of the falling stone by Galileo arose dynamics, and their course, though their entry into the world was so modest, led them to revolutionise all science and all modes of living irrespective of the obstacles that hatred and stupidity heaped into their path. The science of contest will progress irresistibly, as soon as its first modest success has been scored.
It is desirable that institutes to further these ends should be erected. Such institutes would have to work upon a mass of material already extant: theory of mathematical games, of organisation, of the conduct of business, of dispute, of negotiation; they would have to breed teachers capable of elevating the multitude from its terrible dilettantism in matters of contest; they would have to produce books of instruction and for reading as plain, as intelligible, as valuable as Knigge's _Social Intercourse Amongst Mankind_. (_Umgang mit Menschen_) or Labruyere's _Characters_.
Such an institute should be founded by every people who want to make themselves fit for a sturdier future and at the same time to aid the progress and the happiness of all humankind.
These plans are not at all fantastic; they will certainly be realised at some time. Why not now? Let us hope that also in these days of all-round mediocrity Reason is not wholly without partisans."
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FINAL REFLECTIONS ON EDUCATION IN CHESS.
Education in Chess goes on in a most haphazard fashion. Most Chess players slowly climb to a certain rather low level and stay there. Of players to whom a master can give odds of a Queen there are millions; players of greater skill number probably no more than a quarter of a million. If we reckon the number of Rook players as a hundred and fifty thousand, of Knight players as fifty thousand, of Pawn and two-move players as forty thousand, of pawn and move players as nine thousand, and the number of those to whom no master can allow odds, as one thousand, we are possibly not very far wrong. Now let us consider the efforts made to attain this result: a literature of many thousand volumes, hundreds, maybe thousands, of Chess columns in widely read newspapers and magazines, lectures, tournaments, tournament books, courses of instruction, matches in the clubs and between clubs and cities and countries, by correspondence, by telegraph and telephone, thousands of coffee - houses, where spectators, amid lively gossip, look on, make notes, analyze - truly an imposing expenditure.
One should not take these facts too easily. Certainly, in spite of its capacities, Chess is only a game and not to be classed with business, science, technology, not to speak of religion, philosophy or the arts. No one desires to see players devote to Chess such time as they need for serious purposes. The waste of time in Chess would not matter, were it not a symptom of a sickness that has befallen our culture.
We have learnt how to organise manufacturing plants, but our general education, our mental work, our economy of ideals are not better than our education in Chess.
I will here not wail. I will only illuminate a connection, even though rapidly. Chess, from its very inception, has had coherence with Life.
Let us assume that a master who follows a good method, say, the method of this book, strives to educate a young man ignorant of Chess to the level of one who, if conceded any odds, would surely come out the winner. How much time would the teacher need for this achievement? I think that I am correct in making the following calculation:
Rules of Play and Exercises 5 hrs.
Elementary Endings 5 hrs.
Some Openings 10 hrs.
Combination 20 hrs.
Position Play 40 hrs.
Play and Analysis 120 hrs.
Even if the young man has no talent at all, by following the above course he would advance to the class specified. Compare with this possibility, the reality. In fact, there are a quarter of a million Chess amateurs who devote to Chess at least two hundred hours ever year and of these only a thousand, after a lifetime of study, attain the end. Without losing myself in calculations, I believe I am safe in voicing the opinion that our efforts in Chess attain only a hundredth of one per cent of their rightful result.
Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values. In Mathematics and in Physics the results arrived at are still worse than in Chess. Is there a tendency to keep the bulk of the people stupid? For governments of an autocratic type the foolishness of the multitude has always been an asset. Possibly, also the mediocre who happen to be in authority follow the same policy. This motif, it is true, is not predominating in Chess. The bad state of education in Chess is due entirely to our backwardness.
Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized, simply because it is not important enough. If you load your memory, you should know why. Memory is too valuable to be stocked with trifles. Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting most of what I had learned or read, and since I succeeded in this I have acquired a certain ease and cheer which I should never again like to be without. If need be, I can increase my skill in Chess, if need be I can do that of which I have no idea at present. I have stored little in my memory, but I can apply that little, and it is of good use in many and varied emergencies. I keep it in order, but resist every attempt to increase its dead weight.
You should keep in mind no names, nor numbers, nor isolated incidents, not even results, but only methods. The method is plastic. It is applicable in every situation. The result, the isolated incident, is rigid, because bound to wholly individual conditions. The method produces numerous results; a few of these will remain in our memory, and as long as they remain few, they are useful to illustrate and to keep alive the rules which order a thousand results. Such useful results must be renewed from time to time just as fresh food has to be supplied to a living organism to keep it strong and healthy. But results useful in this manner have a living connection with rules, and these again are discovered by applying a live method: the whole of this organisation must have life, more than that -- a harmonious life.
This harmonious life stems from life; life is generated only by life. He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess -- artificial theories, supported by few instances and unheld by an excess of human wit; the habit of playing with inferior opponents; the custom of avoiding difficult tasks; the weakness of uncritically taking over variations or rules discovered by others; the vanity which is self-sufficient; the incapacity for admitting mistakes; in brief, everything that leads to a standstill or to anarchy.
Acquisition of harmonious education is comparable to the production and the elevation of an organism harmoniously built. The one is fed by blood, the other one by the spirit; but Life, equally mysterious, creative, powerful, flows through either. This comparison is no mere rhetorical imagery; it is a programme.
True, this programme, valid for all education, is in no way restricted to Chess; only a second postulate added to the above singles out Chess among all other things to be taught. It is this: to lead the pupil along the paths of the theory of Steinitz.
This theory has a history which the pupil should strive to understand because it lifts the veil a little from the mystery of human character; this theory has a meaning which became manifest after a hard contest with competing theories and won authority through a celebrated world's championship match; this theory has connections with profound problems; this theory asks the pupil to think for himself and to construct his own table of values and to keep it constantly, vigilantly, in order; this theory demands of him boldness and caution and force and economy and thus becomes to him a model for actions outside of Chess.
The road to this education requires good teachers -- masters of Chess who at the same time are geniuses of teaching. But it pays to go along this road for it leads to a country of men who judge independently, act boldly and aspire after noble ideals.
How should these teachers follow their avocation? In introducing young men into the game in the right manner by lectures, good books, by live play with their pupils, by assisting at matches of the pupils and making notes and comments on the good and weak points of the games played; in short, by thus facilitating the thinking of their pupil without doing violence to it. The ways in which a good teacher may do efficient work are manifold and varied.
The Chess world has the task of breeding such teachers and, as soon as this is accomplished, to support them in their efforts. Thus the Chess-world would ease the hard life of the Chess-masters who must make a profession of Chess provided they want to do their best for Chess. But who wants to stop half-way? Who would want these Chess-masters who have the capacity for excellent teaching in them to become mediocre in Chess only in order to make them mediocre in some other profession? The function of a Chess-master, who would be principally a Chess-teacher, is useful and pleasing. It is to the individual credit of Chess that in other domains of human activity, at least up to the present, teachers of the above type are not even possible.
On the Future of the Theory of Steinitz.
It is easy to mould the theory of Steinitz into mathematical symbols by inventing a kind of Chess, the rules and regulations of which are themselves expressed by mathematical symbols. The Japanese game of Go is very nearly what I mean. In such a game the question, whether thorough analysis would confirm the theory of Steinitz or not, presumably could be quickly solved because the power of modern mathematics is exceedingly great.
The instant that this solution is worked out, humanity stands before the gate of an immense new science which prophetic philosophers have called the mathematics or the physics of contest.
The contests fought nowadays by men -- war, diplomatic negotiation, competition in manufacture, disputes in the press, to name just a few -- are conducted very amateurishly. That wars should appear to us a necessity is proof of our stupidity. True, humanity has need of a test for progress, for right, for soundness of ethics in human affairs, but that need can be satisfied in other and more efficient ways than by war. To make this evident is difficult only because men do not want to know the truth. But this task will be an easy one as soon as the science of contest attains recognition.
To outlaw war will be possible because humanity has a wealth of efficient and useful means to fill the gap that would be left. The competition between research workers, inventors, discoverers, artists, statesmen causes the flow of blood in the body of culture. And this competition will retain its vigour till many centuries after the time that Victor Hugo pictures, when cannons will have been stored in museums alongside of the instruments of torture to serve as memorials of a vanished barbaric epoch.
The mathematics of Chess does not, it is true, solve the problem of comprehending the contests of Life, but it sets that problem in precise terms and points to a solution. There the leverage will be supported whence investigators will set scientific research into motion. The first step is always the essential one. With the law of the lever by Archimedes came statics, with the law of the falling stone by Galileo arose dynamics, and their course, though their entry into the world was so modest, led them to revolutionise all science and all modes of living irrespective of the obstacles that hatred and stupidity heaped into their path. The science of contest will progress irresistibly, as soon as its first modest success has been scored.
It is desirable that institutes to further these ends should be erected. Such institutes would have to work upon a mass of material already extant: theory of mathematical games, of organisation, of the conduct of business, of dispute, of negotiation; they would have to breed teachers capable of elevating the multitude from its terrible dilettantism in matters of contest; they would have to produce books of instruction and for reading as plain, as intelligible, as valuable as Knigge's _Social Intercourse Amongst Mankind_. (_Umgang mit Menschen_) or Labruyere's _Characters_.
Such an institute should be founded by every people who want to make themselves fit for a sturdier future and at the same time to aid the progress and the happiness of all humankind.
These plans are not at all fantastic; they will certainly be realised at some time. Why not now? Let us hope that also in these days of all-round mediocrity Reason is not wholly without partisans."
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MYGOODNESS(LAZINESS & STUPIDITY!)
I should remove & fix the previous terrible post...
But I'd leave it as such to remind me of my laziness & stupidity...
Have not really solved the problem of spaces/"returns"in this blog...
"Chess is good for the brain - even for adults - no one has ever seen a senile chess player!"
Just decided to play again CHESS to fight dementia/softening of my brain...
I feel my brain (which was fist-sized before) is now half-fist...
Hey! INTELLIGENCE IS HOW EFFICIENTLY YOU USE YOUR BRAIN!
SHAQ O NEIL's BRAIN IS MUCH MUCH BIGGER THAN MINE
BUT I'LL FIGHT HIM IN ANY BRAIN GAME (NOT BASKETBALL!)
ADDENDUM:
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The Seven Intelligences
=======================
Type of Intelligence/Possible Occupation/Core Components
1) LOGICAL-MATHEMATICAL
Scientist, Mathematician
Sensitivity to and capacity to discern logical
or numerical patterns;
ability to handle long chains of reasoning
2) LINGUISTIC
Poet, Journalist
Sensitivity to the sounds, rhythms, and meanings of words;
sensitivity to the different functions of language
3) MUSICAL
Composer, Violinist
Abilities to produce and appreciate rhythm, pitch, and timbre;
appreciation of the forms of musical expressiveness
4) SPATIAL
Navigator, Sculptor
Capacities to perceive the visual-spatial world accurately
and to manipulate the mental representations that result
5) BODILY-KINESTHETIC
Dancer, Athlete
Abilities to control one’s body movements
and to handle objects skillfully
6) INTERPERSONAL
Therapist, Salesperson
Capacities to discern and respond
appropriately to the moods, temperaments,
motivations, and desires of other people
7) INTRAPERSONAL
Person with detailed access to one’s own feelings
and the accurate self-knowledge
ability to discriminate among them
and draw upon them to guide behavior;
knowledge of one’s own strengths,
weaknesses, desires, and intelligences
Source: “Multiple Intelligences Go to School:
Education Implication of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences,”
by H. Gardner and T. Hatch, 1989.
Educational Researcher, 18, (8), pp. 4–10.
as quoted from: rtyuytrtyriuy
But I'd leave it as such to remind me of my laziness & stupidity...
Have not really solved the problem of spaces/"returns"in this blog...
"Chess is good for the brain - even for adults - no one has ever seen a senile chess player!"
Just decided to play again CHESS to fight dementia/softening of my brain...
I feel my brain (which was fist-sized before) is now half-fist...
Hey! INTELLIGENCE IS HOW EFFICIENTLY YOU USE YOUR BRAIN!
SHAQ O NEIL's BRAIN IS MUCH MUCH BIGGER THAN MINE
BUT I'LL FIGHT HIM IN ANY BRAIN GAME (NOT BASKETBALL!)
ADDENDUM:
=======================
The Seven Intelligences
=======================
Type of Intelligence/Possible Occupation/Core Components
1) LOGICAL-MATHEMATICAL
Scientist, Mathematician
Sensitivity to and capacity to discern logical
or numerical patterns;
ability to handle long chains of reasoning
2) LINGUISTIC
Poet, Journalist
Sensitivity to the sounds, rhythms, and meanings of words;
sensitivity to the different functions of language
3) MUSICAL
Composer, Violinist
Abilities to produce and appreciate rhythm, pitch, and timbre;
appreciation of the forms of musical expressiveness
4) SPATIAL
Navigator, Sculptor
Capacities to perceive the visual-spatial world accurately
and to manipulate the mental representations that result
5) BODILY-KINESTHETIC
Dancer, Athlete
Abilities to control one’s body movements
and to handle objects skillfully
6) INTERPERSONAL
Therapist, Salesperson
Capacities to discern and respond
appropriately to the moods, temperaments,
motivations, and desires of other people
7) INTRAPERSONAL
Person with detailed access to one’s own feelings
and the accurate self-knowledge
ability to discriminate among them
and draw upon them to guide behavior;
knowledge of one’s own strengths,
weaknesses, desires, and intelligences
Source: “Multiple Intelligences Go to School:
Education Implication of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences,”
by H. Gardner and T. Hatch, 1989.
Educational Researcher, 18, (8), pp. 4–10.
as quoted from: rtyuytrtyriuy
CHESSTHINK
TREE OF POSSIBILITIES/VARIATIONS
I
I
___________I__________
/\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\
12 34 5 6 7 8 9 10 1112 1314 1516
===========================================
IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHESS THINKING
OF MASTER & PATZER
===========================================
TYRO
I
I
_______I_______
/\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\
NOTE:Numerous (many) considerations but SHALLOW
SAME NUMBER OF POSSIBILITIES
UNDER CONSIDERATION(=16)
SAME NUMBER OF TOTAL BRANCHES
OF TREE OF POSSIBILITES
GRANDMASTER
I
I
I
/\
/ \
/ \
/ \
/ \
/ \
/ \
/ \
/\ /\
/ \ / \
/ \ / \
/ \ / \
/\ /\ /\ /\
/ \ / \ / \ / \
/\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\
NOTE: Few choices but Deep (DEPTH)
A LAZY &/OR procrastinating person
(one who does not want to THINK things
through & thouroughly, immediately)
is AUTOMATICALLY OUT! CHESS IS NOT FOR YOU (US!)
It is not that masters have to think through all the possibilities
On the contrary, they have very few/limited choices
to make or choose from based on their knowledge & experience
but these are deeper/finer
Tyros are cruder, grosser. Masters are sophisticated...
Masters do not at all take into consideration the irrelevant/insignificant/erroneous
When they see the board they have a GRASP of what is IMPORTANT or of WHAT MATTERS
It is intelligent discernment ("intelligere") or better intelligent NON-CONCERN
THey know precisely what to disregard! And these NOISE never enter into their minds!
SO a CLEAR MIND is ESSENTIAL...
CLARITY, PRECISION, DEPTH, SOPHISTICATION...
Chess masters are good at ANALYZING positions.
Masters play consistently (not erratically) with minimal or no error
Even if they commit an error they are able to recover quickly or take corrective action
They have MASTERED the fundamentals (ABC's) & basic techniques, short-cuts, rules-of-thumb
THey are able to apply/do all these in REAL-TIME
under intense PSYCHOLOGICAL pressure...
CORRECT training & PROPER education
makes the difference between successful players
& unsuccessful ones given the same TALENT
Just like in other fields of knowledge, skill etc
MISEDUCATION is WORSE than IGNORANCE
"MEN ARE BORN IGNORANT, NOT STUPID.
IT IS EDUCATION THAT MAKES THEM STUPID."
-Bertrand Russell
My Comment: MISeducation as in conspiracy theory
of mass mind manipulation & stupidification...
I
I
___________I__________
/\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\
12 34 5 6 7 8 9 10 1112 1314 1516
===========================================
IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHESS THINKING
OF MASTER & PATZER
===========================================
TYRO
I
I
_______I_______
/\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\
NOTE:Numerous (many) considerations but SHALLOW
SAME NUMBER OF POSSIBILITIES
UNDER CONSIDERATION(=16)
SAME NUMBER OF TOTAL BRANCHES
OF TREE OF POSSIBILITES
GRANDMASTER
I
I
I
/\
/ \
/ \
/ \
/ \
/ \
/ \
/ \
/\ /\
/ \ / \
/ \ / \
/ \ / \
/\ /\ /\ /\
/ \ / \ / \ / \
/\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\
NOTE: Few choices but Deep (DEPTH)
A LAZY &/OR procrastinating person
(one who does not want to THINK things
through & thouroughly, immediately)
is AUTOMATICALLY OUT! CHESS IS NOT FOR YOU (US!)
It is not that masters have to think through all the possibilities
On the contrary, they have very few/limited choices
to make or choose from based on their knowledge & experience
but these are deeper/finer
Tyros are cruder, grosser. Masters are sophisticated...
Masters do not at all take into consideration the irrelevant/insignificant/erroneous
When they see the board they have a GRASP of what is IMPORTANT or of WHAT MATTERS
It is intelligent discernment ("intelligere") or better intelligent NON-CONCERN
THey know precisely what to disregard! And these NOISE never enter into their minds!
SO a CLEAR MIND is ESSENTIAL...
CLARITY, PRECISION, DEPTH, SOPHISTICATION...
Chess masters are good at ANALYZING positions.
Masters play consistently (not erratically) with minimal or no error
Even if they commit an error they are able to recover quickly or take corrective action
They have MASTERED the fundamentals (ABC's) & basic techniques, short-cuts, rules-of-thumb
THey are able to apply/do all these in REAL-TIME
under intense PSYCHOLOGICAL pressure...
CORRECT training & PROPER education
makes the difference between successful players
& unsuccessful ones given the same TALENT
Just like in other fields of knowledge, skill etc
MISEDUCATION is WORSE than IGNORANCE
"MEN ARE BORN IGNORANT, NOT STUPID.
IT IS EDUCATION THAT MAKES THEM STUPID."
-Bertrand Russell
My Comment: MISeducation as in conspiracy theory
of mass mind manipulation & stupidification...
Thursday, May 15, 2008
AND MORE CHATUR
Some more educational links:
MALAY CHESS
http://history.chess.free.fr/mainchator.htm
CAMBODIAN CHESS
http://history.chess.free.fr/cambodian.htm
CHATRANG (NOT SHAHTRANG PALA!)
http://history.chess.free.fr/chatrang.htm
TMNP
MALAY CHESS
http://history.chess.free.fr/mainchator.htm
CAMBODIAN CHESS
http://history.chess.free.fr/cambodian.htm
CHATRANG (NOT SHAHTRANG PALA!)
http://history.chess.free.fr/chatrang.htm
TMNP
CHATUR AGAIN + ISLAAM
MUSLIMS & CHATUR/SHATRANJ
Remember: THe MUSLIMS HAD THEIR OWN FORM OF CHESS...
MUSLIMS READ THE FF:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As-Suli
Abu-Bakr Muhammad ben Yahya as-Suli & As-Suli's Diamond problem
ALSO:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_Sultan_Khan
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=23857
http://www.bcmchess.co.uk/britbase/arch30.htm
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/sultankhan.html
About MIR SULTAN KHAN
(NB: He WAS NOT a sultan but a houseboy HAR!)
He became British chess champion & even beat CAPABLANCA,
the Cuban CHESS MACHINE in their personal encounter!!!
"Kitab Ash-Shatranj (Book of Chess),
which was the first scientific book ever written on chess strategy"
MUSLIIIIIIIMS PLEEEEEEEZZZZZZZ NAMAAAAAAAN USE YOUR COCONUTS!!!
Aren't you ashamed to be told by a weakie revert???
Don't you have HIYA, SIPPUG, MARATABAT ETC ETC???
YOUR ENEMY HATES MOST WHAT IS BEST FOR YOU. - SEZ ME
Remember: THe MUSLIMS HAD THEIR OWN FORM OF CHESS...
MUSLIMS READ THE FF:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As-Suli
Abu-Bakr Muhammad ben Yahya as-Suli & As-Suli's Diamond problem
ALSO:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_Sultan_Khan
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=23857
http://www.bcmchess.co.uk/britbase/arch30.htm
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/sultankhan.html
About MIR SULTAN KHAN
(NB: He WAS NOT a sultan but a houseboy HAR!)
He became British chess champion & even beat CAPABLANCA,
the Cuban CHESS MACHINE in their personal encounter!!!
"Kitab Ash-Shatranj (Book of Chess),
which was the first scientific book ever written on chess strategy"
MUSLIIIIIIIMS PLEEEEEEEZZZZZZZ NAMAAAAAAAN USE YOUR COCONUTS!!!
Aren't you ashamed to be told by a weakie revert???
Don't you have HIYA, SIPPUG, MARATABAT ETC ETC???
YOUR ENEMY HATES MOST WHAT IS BEST FOR YOU. - SEZ ME
STILL CHATUR!
May 16, 2008
MUSLIMS READ THIS & STUDY/NOTE VERY WELL:
Fatawa: Playing Chess: Permissible?
Contemporary Fatawa
Question: Playing Chess: Permissible?
Answer:
Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
Dear sister in Islam, thanks a lot for your question which reflects your care
to have a clear view of the teachings of Islam. Allah commands Muslims to refer
to people of knowledge to get themselves well-acquainted with the teachings of Islam.
In his well-known book, The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam,
the prominent Muslim scholar, Sheik Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, states:
"Chess is a very popular game, and the opinion of jurists concerning it varies.
Some scholars consider it halal (permissible), others consider it makruh (reprehensible),
and still others consider it haram (unlawful).
Those who consider it haram cite some hadiths in support of their view,
but researchers have proved that chess did not appear
until after the death of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).
Thus all such hadiths must have been fabricated.
The Companions of the Prophet (may Allah be pleased with them all) themselves
held different views about playing chess. Ibn `Umar (may Allah be pleased with him)
said that it is worse than backgammon and `Ali (may Allah be pleased with him)
regarded it as gambling (perhaps meaning when it is played for money),
while some others merely expressed disapproval of it.
However, some Companions and some of the second generation of scholars allowed it.
Among those were Ibn `Abbas, Abu Hurayrah, Ibn Sirin, Hisham bin `Umrah, and Sa`id Ibn Al-Musayyib.
We agree with those great jurists, since the original principle is the permissibility of acts
and no text is to be found prohibiting it.
Moreover, in addition to being a game and a recreation,
chess is also a mental exercise which requires thought and planning.
In this respect, it is the opposite of backgammon,
for while backgammon is a game of chance and therefore comparable to divining with arrows,
chess is a game of skill and strategy, which may be compared to archery.
However, playing chess is permissible only if the following conditions are met:
1- One should not get so absorbed in it that he delays his prayer;
chess is well-known to be a stealer of time.
2- There should be no gambling involved.
3- The players should not utter obscenities or vulgarities.
If any of these conditions are not met it should be considered as haram."
You can also read:
Islam and Recreation
May Allah guide you to the straight path, and direct you to that which pleases Him, Amen.
Country Of Origin : Morocco
Fatawa Issuing Body : Islam Online
Author/Scholar : Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
Date Of Issue : 25/Dec/2003
Note: http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503543132
=======
My Comment:
"Fatawa" or "Fatwa"?
Qaradawi writes another item that seems correct to me...
But one Islaamic website says that Qaradawi is one writer who should not be believed...
Now WHO is telling the TRUTH & WHO is TRULY ISLAAMIC???
"researchers have proved that chess did not appear
until after the death of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).
Thus all such hadiths must have been fabricated."
MY SUSPICION: THE ENEMIES OF ISLAAM DID NOT WANT MUSLIMS TO
RELEARN CHESS FOR FEAR OF ISLAAM'S "JIHAAD" TEACHING...
SO THEY INSTILLED THE IDEA AMONG MUSLIMS THAT CHESS IS HARAAM!!!
I WAS SO DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED WHEN I FOUND OUT THAT ALMOST ALL
MORO MUSLIM YOUTH I KNEW EITHER DID NOT KNOW CHESS OR CONSIDERED
IT HARAAM... JUST LIKE MUSIC, CHESS CAN BE EXTREMELY USEFUL FOR
JIHAADISTS!!! (I WAS TOLD PLAYING CHESS WAS LIKE WASHING ONE'S
HAND IN PIG'S BLOOD!!!)
I DARE MUSLIMS (THOSE WHO CONSIDER THEMSELVES AS ONE)
TO FIND A TRULY MUSLIM ARAB OR NON-ARAB WHO IS
OF WORLD-CLASS CALIBRE... (SEIRAWAN IS HALF-BRITISH)
NOW YOU KNOW HOW FAR MUSLIMS ARE FROM THE BY-GONE GLORIOUS TIMES
WHEN THE MUSLIMS RULED THE WORLD & LED OVER THEIR ENEMIES IN
SUCH FIELDS AS ASTRONOMY, NAVIGATION, CHESS, MUSIC, STATE ADMINISTRATION, ARCHITECTURE, URBAN PLANNING, ETC ETC
I THINK ONE OF THE PHILIPPINES' ORDINARY KANTO CLUB HABITUE
WOULD MAKE ABSOLUTE CHESS CHAMPION OF KSA HAR HAR HAR
"Chess is well-known to be a stealer of time."
NOTHING CAN BE "TRUER"!!!
2- There should be no gambling involved.
3- The players should not utter obscenities or vulgarities.
YOU ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH ACTUAL CLUB/COMPETITIVE CHESS
& CHESS PERSONALITIES!!! HAR!
I HAVE OTHER PROFOUND THOUGHTS ABOUT THE MATTER
WHICH I SHALL APPEND LATER...
MUSLIMS READ THIS & STUDY/NOTE VERY WELL:
Fatawa: Playing Chess: Permissible?
Contemporary Fatawa
Question: Playing Chess: Permissible?
Answer:
Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
Dear sister in Islam, thanks a lot for your question which reflects your care
to have a clear view of the teachings of Islam. Allah commands Muslims to refer
to people of knowledge to get themselves well-acquainted with the teachings of Islam.
In his well-known book, The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam,
the prominent Muslim scholar, Sheik Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, states:
"Chess is a very popular game, and the opinion of jurists concerning it varies.
Some scholars consider it halal (permissible), others consider it makruh (reprehensible),
and still others consider it haram (unlawful).
Those who consider it haram cite some hadiths in support of their view,
but researchers have proved that chess did not appear
until after the death of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).
Thus all such hadiths must have been fabricated.
The Companions of the Prophet (may Allah be pleased with them all) themselves
held different views about playing chess. Ibn `Umar (may Allah be pleased with him)
said that it is worse than backgammon and `Ali (may Allah be pleased with him)
regarded it as gambling (perhaps meaning when it is played for money),
while some others merely expressed disapproval of it.
However, some Companions and some of the second generation of scholars allowed it.
Among those were Ibn `Abbas, Abu Hurayrah, Ibn Sirin, Hisham bin `Umrah, and Sa`id Ibn Al-Musayyib.
We agree with those great jurists, since the original principle is the permissibility of acts
and no text is to be found prohibiting it.
Moreover, in addition to being a game and a recreation,
chess is also a mental exercise which requires thought and planning.
In this respect, it is the opposite of backgammon,
for while backgammon is a game of chance and therefore comparable to divining with arrows,
chess is a game of skill and strategy, which may be compared to archery.
However, playing chess is permissible only if the following conditions are met:
1- One should not get so absorbed in it that he delays his prayer;
chess is well-known to be a stealer of time.
2- There should be no gambling involved.
3- The players should not utter obscenities or vulgarities.
If any of these conditions are not met it should be considered as haram."
You can also read:
Islam and Recreation
May Allah guide you to the straight path, and direct you to that which pleases Him, Amen.
Country Of Origin : Morocco
Fatawa Issuing Body : Islam Online
Author/Scholar : Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
Date Of Issue : 25/Dec/2003
Note: http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503543132
=======
My Comment:
"Fatawa" or "Fatwa"?
Qaradawi writes another item that seems correct to me...
But one Islaamic website says that Qaradawi is one writer who should not be believed...
Now WHO is telling the TRUTH & WHO is TRULY ISLAAMIC???
"researchers have proved that chess did not appear
until after the death of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).
Thus all such hadiths must have been fabricated."
MY SUSPICION: THE ENEMIES OF ISLAAM DID NOT WANT MUSLIMS TO
RELEARN CHESS FOR FEAR OF ISLAAM'S "JIHAAD" TEACHING...
SO THEY INSTILLED THE IDEA AMONG MUSLIMS THAT CHESS IS HARAAM!!!
I WAS SO DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED WHEN I FOUND OUT THAT ALMOST ALL
MORO MUSLIM YOUTH I KNEW EITHER DID NOT KNOW CHESS OR CONSIDERED
IT HARAAM... JUST LIKE MUSIC, CHESS CAN BE EXTREMELY USEFUL FOR
JIHAADISTS!!! (I WAS TOLD PLAYING CHESS WAS LIKE WASHING ONE'S
HAND IN PIG'S BLOOD!!!)
I DARE MUSLIMS (THOSE WHO CONSIDER THEMSELVES AS ONE)
TO FIND A TRULY MUSLIM ARAB OR NON-ARAB WHO IS
OF WORLD-CLASS CALIBRE... (SEIRAWAN IS HALF-BRITISH)
NOW YOU KNOW HOW FAR MUSLIMS ARE FROM THE BY-GONE GLORIOUS TIMES
WHEN THE MUSLIMS RULED THE WORLD & LED OVER THEIR ENEMIES IN
SUCH FIELDS AS ASTRONOMY, NAVIGATION, CHESS, MUSIC, STATE ADMINISTRATION, ARCHITECTURE, URBAN PLANNING, ETC ETC
I THINK ONE OF THE PHILIPPINES' ORDINARY KANTO CLUB HABITUE
WOULD MAKE ABSOLUTE CHESS CHAMPION OF KSA HAR HAR HAR
"Chess is well-known to be a stealer of time."
NOTHING CAN BE "TRUER"!!!
2- There should be no gambling involved.
3- The players should not utter obscenities or vulgarities.
YOU ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH ACTUAL CLUB/COMPETITIVE CHESS
& CHESS PERSONALITIES!!! HAR!
I HAVE OTHER PROFOUND THOUGHTS ABOUT THE MATTER
WHICH I SHALL APPEND LATER...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
COMPETITIONS
May 14, 2008
@Home
NEWS: Myanmar Cyclone - Number of Dead unbelievable...
China Earthquake... How does one know the TRUTH when the ONLY source is MEDIA...
Maybe if one had friends in those places, then one may ask them... But still this knowledge would be LIMITED... One has to have a BIG VIEW (GOD'S-POINT-OF-VIEW)...
While surfing I found the following item from SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN magazine, one of my very important readings/sources of knowledge as a youth... Now I wonder its difference from the AMERICAN SCIENTIST magazine...
Brought back to my memory a description of civil exams in old CHINA as related by my Asian Civilizations teacher who was a Filipina-Chinese... She must have read this item.
OURCE: SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 841
NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 13, 1892
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Scientific American Supplement, No. 841,
February 13, 1892, by Various
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15193/15193-h/15193-h.htm#art14
================================
CHINESE COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS
================================
Wuchang, on the Yangtsze opposite Hankow, is the capital of the two provinces Hupeh and Hunan. Here, every third year, the examination for competitors from both provinces is held, and a correspondent of the North China Herald, of Shanghai, describes the scene at the examination at the beginning of September last. The streets, he says, are thronged with long-robed, large-spectacled gentlemen, who inform the world at large by every fold of drapery, every swagger of gait, every curve of nail, that they are the aristocracy of the most ancient empire of the world. Wuchang had from 12,000 to 15,000 bachelors of arts within its walls, who came from the far borders of the province for the examination for the provincial degree. About one-half per cent. will be successful; thousands of them know they have not the shadow of a chance, but literary etiquette binds them to appear. In the wake of these Confucian scholars come a rout of traders, painters, scroll sellers, teapot venders, candle merchants, spectacle mongers, etc.; servants and friends swell the number, so that the examination makes a difference of some 40,000 or 50,000 to the resident population. In the great examination hall, which is composed of a series of pens shut off from each other in little rows of 20 or 30, and the view of which is suggestive of a huge cattle market, there is accommodation for over 10,000 candidates. The observance of rules of academic propriety is very strict. A candidate may be excluded, not only for incompetence, but for writing his name in the wrong place, for tearing or blotting his examination paper, etc. After the examination of each batch a list of those allowed to compete for honors is published, and the essay forms for each district are prepared with proper names and particulars. The ancestors of the candidate for three generations must be recorded, they must be free from taint of yamen service, prostitution, the barber's trade and the theater, or the candidate would not have obtained his first degree. With the forms 300 cash (about 1s.) are presented to each candidate for food during the ordeal. The lists being thus prepared, on the sixth day of the eighth moon (Tuesday, the 8th of September, in 1891), the city takes a holiday to witness the ceremony of "entering the curtain," i.e., opening the examination hall. For days coolies have been pumping water into great tanks, droves of pigs have been driven into the inclosure, doctors, tailors, cooks, coffins, printers, etc., have been massed within the hall for possible needs. The imperial commissioners are escorted by the examination officials to the place. A dozen district magistrates have been appointed to superintend within the walls, and as many more outside, two prefects have office inside, and the governor of the province has also to be locked up during the eight days of examination. The whole company is first entertained to breakfast at the yamen, and then the procession forms; the ordinary umbrellas, lictors, gongs, feathers, and ragamuffins are there in force; the examiners and the highest officers are carried in open chairs draped in scarlet and covered with tiger skins. The dead silence that falls on the crowd betokens the approach of the governor, who brings up the rear. Then the bustle of the actual examination begins. The hall is a miniature city. Practically martial law is proclaimed. In the central tower is a sword, and misdemeanor within the limits is punished with instant death. The mandarins take up their quarters in their respective lodges, the whole army of writers whose duty it is to copy out the essays of the candidates, to prevent collusion, take their places. Altogether there must be over 20,000 people shut in. Cases have been known in which a hopeful candidate was crushed to death in the crowd at the gate. Each candidate is first identified, and he is assigned a certain number which corresponds to a cell a few feet square, containing one board for a seat and one for a desk. Meanwhile the printers in the building are hard at work printing the essay texts. Each row of cells has two attendants for cooking, etc., assigned to it, the candidates take their seats, the rows are locked from the outside, the themes are handed out, the contest has begun. The examination is divided into three bouts of about 36 hours, two nights and a day, each, with intervals of a day. The first is the production of three essays on the four assigned books; the second of five essays on the five classics; the third of five essays on miscellaneous subjects. The strain, as may be imagined, is very great, and several victims die in the hall. The literary ambition which leads old men of 60 and 70 to enter not unfrequently destroys them. Should any fatal case occur, the coffin may on no account be carried out throughthe gates; it must be lifted over or sometimes through a breach in the wall. Death must not pollute the greatentrance. At the end of the third trial, the first batch of those who have completed their essays is honored with the firing of guns, the bows of the officials, and the ministry of a band of music. Three weeks of anxious waiting will ensue before a huge crowd will assemble to see the list published. Then the successful candidates are the pride
of their country side, and well do the survivors of such an ordeal deserve their credit. The case of those who are in the last selection and are left degreeless, for the stern reason that some must be crowded out, is the hardest of all.
=======================
It seems the Philippine BAR imitates this Chinese civil exams...
COMPETITION, COMPETING
If there is ONE single personal problem I have - it's my being NON-COMPETITIVE...
I mentioned in a previous POST that I have WEAK WILL - MORE ACCURATELY, I am essentially a NON_COMPETITIVE INDIVIDUAL & this is the SINGLE BIG REASON for my not being successful in Life... In fact, I DISLIKE/HATE COMPETING (i.e. being COMPARED WITH OTHERS)... I have attained distinction in my studies & even received some "citations of distinction" even in CHESS but this was because I just did naturally what was needed to be done... But I did not give that added PUSH, I did not have that DESIRE to go over & above another fellow human characteristic of STRONG PERSONALITIES or COMPETITIVE INDIVIDUALS... This LACK OF INITIATIVE or "TIMIDITY" I believe is common among the "Philippine Islanders" & that s why they are POOR & MATERIALLY UNSUCCESSFUL... Maybe they have grown weary of CENTURIES of STRUGGLING [REMEMBER: The Nusantarans were the first in ASIA to collide with the WEST - SPAIN & PORTUGAL in the 15-16th Centuries & the DUTCH, ENGLAND, & AMERICA later...
We were fighting the de facto SUPERPOWERS ever since time immemorial!
REMEMBER: We fought SPAIN (SPAIN & PORTUGAL DIVIDED THE WORLD BETWEEN THEMSELVES THEN). WE FOUGHT AMERICA & IT WAS DURING THAT TIME (TURN OF 19th-20th CENTURY THAT MARKED THE RISE OF U.S.A. TO WORLD POWER STATUS...
TODAY's GLOBAL POWER PLAYERS SHOULD STUDY US (WE) IF THEY WANT TO LEARN SOME VALUABLE LESSONS...
@Home
NEWS: Myanmar Cyclone - Number of Dead unbelievable...
China Earthquake... How does one know the TRUTH when the ONLY source is MEDIA...
Maybe if one had friends in those places, then one may ask them... But still this knowledge would be LIMITED... One has to have a BIG VIEW (GOD'S-POINT-OF-VIEW)...
While surfing I found the following item from SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN magazine, one of my very important readings/sources of knowledge as a youth... Now I wonder its difference from the AMERICAN SCIENTIST magazine...
Brought back to my memory a description of civil exams in old CHINA as related by my Asian Civilizations teacher who was a Filipina-Chinese... She must have read this item.
OURCE: SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 841
NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 13, 1892
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Scientific American Supplement, No. 841,
February 13, 1892, by Various
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15193/15193-h/15193-h.htm#art14
================================
CHINESE COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS
================================
Wuchang, on the Yangtsze opposite Hankow, is the capital of the two provinces Hupeh and Hunan. Here, every third year, the examination for competitors from both provinces is held, and a correspondent of the North China Herald, of Shanghai, describes the scene at the examination at the beginning of September last. The streets, he says, are thronged with long-robed, large-spectacled gentlemen, who inform the world at large by every fold of drapery, every swagger of gait, every curve of nail, that they are the aristocracy of the most ancient empire of the world. Wuchang had from 12,000 to 15,000 bachelors of arts within its walls, who came from the far borders of the province for the examination for the provincial degree. About one-half per cent. will be successful; thousands of them know they have not the shadow of a chance, but literary etiquette binds them to appear. In the wake of these Confucian scholars come a rout of traders, painters, scroll sellers, teapot venders, candle merchants, spectacle mongers, etc.; servants and friends swell the number, so that the examination makes a difference of some 40,000 or 50,000 to the resident population. In the great examination hall, which is composed of a series of pens shut off from each other in little rows of 20 or 30, and the view of which is suggestive of a huge cattle market, there is accommodation for over 10,000 candidates. The observance of rules of academic propriety is very strict. A candidate may be excluded, not only for incompetence, but for writing his name in the wrong place, for tearing or blotting his examination paper, etc. After the examination of each batch a list of those allowed to compete for honors is published, and the essay forms for each district are prepared with proper names and particulars. The ancestors of the candidate for three generations must be recorded, they must be free from taint of yamen service, prostitution, the barber's trade and the theater, or the candidate would not have obtained his first degree. With the forms 300 cash (about 1s.) are presented to each candidate for food during the ordeal. The lists being thus prepared, on the sixth day of the eighth moon (Tuesday, the 8th of September, in 1891), the city takes a holiday to witness the ceremony of "entering the curtain," i.e., opening the examination hall. For days coolies have been pumping water into great tanks, droves of pigs have been driven into the inclosure, doctors, tailors, cooks, coffins, printers, etc., have been massed within the hall for possible needs. The imperial commissioners are escorted by the examination officials to the place. A dozen district magistrates have been appointed to superintend within the walls, and as many more outside, two prefects have office inside, and the governor of the province has also to be locked up during the eight days of examination. The whole company is first entertained to breakfast at the yamen, and then the procession forms; the ordinary umbrellas, lictors, gongs, feathers, and ragamuffins are there in force; the examiners and the highest officers are carried in open chairs draped in scarlet and covered with tiger skins. The dead silence that falls on the crowd betokens the approach of the governor, who brings up the rear. Then the bustle of the actual examination begins. The hall is a miniature city. Practically martial law is proclaimed. In the central tower is a sword, and misdemeanor within the limits is punished with instant death. The mandarins take up their quarters in their respective lodges, the whole army of writers whose duty it is to copy out the essays of the candidates, to prevent collusion, take their places. Altogether there must be over 20,000 people shut in. Cases have been known in which a hopeful candidate was crushed to death in the crowd at the gate. Each candidate is first identified, and he is assigned a certain number which corresponds to a cell a few feet square, containing one board for a seat and one for a desk. Meanwhile the printers in the building are hard at work printing the essay texts. Each row of cells has two attendants for cooking, etc., assigned to it, the candidates take their seats, the rows are locked from the outside, the themes are handed out, the contest has begun. The examination is divided into three bouts of about 36 hours, two nights and a day, each, with intervals of a day. The first is the production of three essays on the four assigned books; the second of five essays on the five classics; the third of five essays on miscellaneous subjects. The strain, as may be imagined, is very great, and several victims die in the hall. The literary ambition which leads old men of 60 and 70 to enter not unfrequently destroys them. Should any fatal case occur, the coffin may on no account be carried out throughthe gates; it must be lifted over or sometimes through a breach in the wall. Death must not pollute the greatentrance. At the end of the third trial, the first batch of those who have completed their essays is honored with the firing of guns, the bows of the officials, and the ministry of a band of music. Three weeks of anxious waiting will ensue before a huge crowd will assemble to see the list published. Then the successful candidates are the pride
of their country side, and well do the survivors of such an ordeal deserve their credit. The case of those who are in the last selection and are left degreeless, for the stern reason that some must be crowded out, is the hardest of all.
=======================
It seems the Philippine BAR imitates this Chinese civil exams...
COMPETITION, COMPETING
If there is ONE single personal problem I have - it's my being NON-COMPETITIVE...
I mentioned in a previous POST that I have WEAK WILL - MORE ACCURATELY, I am essentially a NON_COMPETITIVE INDIVIDUAL & this is the SINGLE BIG REASON for my not being successful in Life... In fact, I DISLIKE/HATE COMPETING (i.e. being COMPARED WITH OTHERS)... I have attained distinction in my studies & even received some "citations of distinction" even in CHESS but this was because I just did naturally what was needed to be done... But I did not give that added PUSH, I did not have that DESIRE to go over & above another fellow human characteristic of STRONG PERSONALITIES or COMPETITIVE INDIVIDUALS... This LACK OF INITIATIVE or "TIMIDITY" I believe is common among the "Philippine Islanders" & that s why they are POOR & MATERIALLY UNSUCCESSFUL... Maybe they have grown weary of CENTURIES of STRUGGLING [REMEMBER: The Nusantarans were the first in ASIA to collide with the WEST - SPAIN & PORTUGAL in the 15-16th Centuries & the DUTCH, ENGLAND, & AMERICA later...
We were fighting the de facto SUPERPOWERS ever since time immemorial!
REMEMBER: We fought SPAIN (SPAIN & PORTUGAL DIVIDED THE WORLD BETWEEN THEMSELVES THEN). WE FOUGHT AMERICA & IT WAS DURING THAT TIME (TURN OF 19th-20th CENTURY THAT MARKED THE RISE OF U.S.A. TO WORLD POWER STATUS...
TODAY's GLOBAL POWER PLAYERS SHOULD STUDY US (WE) IF THEY WANT TO LEARN SOME VALUABLE LESSONS...
Thursday, May 8, 2008
PLASTIC WATER
Friday, May 09
A cartoon clip on "WATER"
NANCY & SLUGGO CARTOON
I remember as a youngster I already read NANCY way back in the '60's (?)
THis version is actually not the original one. The original NANCY I think was
authored by Ernie BUSHmiller... The drawing style was different...
A cartoon clip on "WATER"
NANCY & SLUGGO CARTOONTHis version is actually not the original one. The original NANCY I think was
authored by Ernie BUSHmiller... The drawing style was different...
CHATUR END POST
May 09, 2008
@Home
CHESS CONT...
Chess is a mini-scale model of the battlefield/war situation
but some thinkers have gone as far as comparing it to Life itself
& they have good reasons. Not only does the one-on-one
confrontation between two adversaries/contending beings represent a
basic social relation between two persons but some finer points or
elements of the game itself have their corresponding items in Life/the World:
time (tempo), space (territory), hierarchy of roles/functions, etc
[People normally think that one should always be DOING SOMETHING...
Chess ZUGZWANG teachess us that there are occasions where NON-ACTION
is critical (NOT INaction... NONaction or SILENCE, NON-MOVEMENT, PAUSE...]
One cannot make "PASS" in Chess...
And in Life everybody is checkmated!
[Dr. Emanuel Lasker: "In LIfe, we are all duffers."]
Some chess writers speak about power, love, justice,
truth, etc in chess...
STRATEGY refers to general considerations, overall plans...
For ex.: Checkmating the King is the ultimate goal, the fundamental strategic objective
of the game.
100 Peso Question:
Can one become an excellent player, even a supergrandmaster, without
knowing how to checkmate with knight & bishop???
Can one be a good tactician & not even have any definite strategy when playing???
TACTICS refers to the more detailed execution of a plan or circumstances of the game
Example:
CAMPAIGN: KATIPUNAN VS. SPANISH FORCES
STRATEGY: CAPTURE MANILA
TACTICS: SKIRMISH IN TONDO, DIVERSIONARY AMBUSCADES IN NOVALICHES
BUT MAIN FORCE COMES VIA MORONG/SAN JUAN TO OVERRUN INTRAMUROS...
Strategy is about plans, Tactics is about action.
Strategy is brain work by generals, Tactics is bloody work by foot-soldiers.
Strategy is normally fixed, Tactics changes event from moment to moment
MY (JAMAAL'S) BASIC AXIOM/FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE IN WAR, BATTLE, COMPETITION, ETC
==========================================================
NO AMOUNT OF TACTICAL VICTORY CAN CORRECT A WRONG STRATEGY
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In a sense one can win all the battles and lose the war!
PRECISELY what has been happening to the MUSLIMS ever since
World War I: THEY HAVE EITHER NO (NONE/NIL) OR THE WRONG STRATEGY!!!
I have not "made any money" from my "chess wisdom" but I really believe
that I could have been a GOOD chess coach or even teacher...
MY TWO REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS: NIMZOVICH's MY SYSTEM & FISCHERS'S MY 60 MEMORABLE GAMES
BUT to be READ only AFTER two years of intensive club chess-playing...
ALSO another ADVICE: LEARN FIRST to play RAPID chess...
ALL EXCELLENT CHESS MASTERS ARE FAST PLAYERS...
I am a NOTORIOUSLY SLOW PLAYER (HAR HAR!) & therefore NOT a GOOD player...
In fact, I DO NOT WANT TO MAKE A MOVE EVEN AS WHITE! HAR!
Kung may "PASS" nga sa chess eh mag-pa-PASS aku eh!!!
It's not so much due to proscrastination but more the symptom of INDECISIVENESS (miseducated on/by HAMLET Prince of Denmark??!!...)
A Mid-East friend told me once that I had WEAK WILL (= ABULIA)!
There's method in my madness:
My reasoning is: No Move=>No Action;No Action=>No Trouble;No Trouble=>NO KARMA!!!
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DIGRESS:[I lost my "positional sense" & "chess intuition" (skills or natural ability I slowly developed or accumulated thru reading & playing) when I got interested in yoga/meditation.
Before, whenever I looked at the chessboard, it looked "MEANINGful" - the men moved in my imagination. But after the thinking shift, all these "MEANING" vanished. The chessboard now looked barren/unmoving - ala existential desert scene or landscape!
It seems the shift to right brain/hemisphere thinking & one year of misguided vegetarianism
(no milk or lentils/beans for protein!) destroyed a big part of my brain cells.
Analytical & Sequential thinking - math (numerical calculation), chess, computer programming, logic are LEFT controlled whereas artistic imagination, space visualization (?) are RIGHT...
(This was the time when Korchnoi came to RP & played Karpov in Baguio(?). Korchnoi had an Ananda Marga mentor.)
Just like Arab ISLAAM, Indian HINDUISM available outside its place of origin apparently
is not really its genuine/true form- it's the watered-down or even WRONG version!!!]
ISLAAM, HINDUISM, BUDDHISM, JAINISM, SIKHISM, CONFUCIANISM, SHINTOISM, TAOISM, ETC
- all presented to the ignorant masses by their ENEMIES!!!
It's my fault: I first saw chess players as stationary/non-moving persons/apparently doing nothing & completely misinterpreted this scene & this misconception was deeply-imbedded in my memory! [Cf. GBShaw's negative comment on chess & chessplayers]
Anyway, to continue to what I could have been...
But, of course, how can one teach another how to master chess if one is not himself a chess master? Yet I believe I grasp the fundamental principles/techniques for training a child to make QUICK progress. Chess-playing ability is NOT the same as ability in teaching chess.
An academic political scientist is not necessarily a politician. Teaching involves different skills, aptitudes or talents... One may be a chess grandmaster & yet make a poor chess teacher.
And in school, I had countless "laude teachers" who were no-good at teaching!!!
Our collegiate chess group once had an avid newbie who was a BATIL/BAD player
& yet he was a highly-organized, methodical/systematic presenter &
very good at explaining things in graded steps so he was assigned to take a role as lecturer.
He knew much chess theory but he could not apply it in actual play.
In chess, it is not the ACQUISITION but the APPLICATION of theory/know-how/knowledge
that REALLY MATTERS. In the end it is ACTUAL PLAYING that decides.
Again, nevertheless, it is not simply just a question of winning.
If one asks: what makes a good chess player? then the answer is so simple: One who beats anybody and everybody is the CHESS CHAMP. Just like when Fischer was asked if he was
a chess genius & he replied that if he won against Spassky(?) then he was one.
Again things seem easy when said/talked about.
One may have beaten all opponents (100 persons) but if they are all PATZERS/BATILS...
One may have lost all 10 games one ever played. But if these are 40+ movers against the likes of
Morphy, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Botvinnik, Tal & Fischer...!
So, it is not really true that it is only the end result that matters!
So chess, like Life, is not really THAT SIMPLE...
[In a sense, really good players are immensely PRACTICAL people.
I believe a REAL CHESS WIZARD will mate you in one-half move if ever there is such a possibility!]
CHESS & LIFE... One models the other... Which is which?
Chess is like Life... but Life is also like Chess:
Life is a GAME... PLAY it (-the EXISTENTIAL reply to THE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION OF PHILO...)
... The most important thing in Life is not the triumph but the struggle...
It is not the travel destination but the trip/journey that is really the point...
LASTLY, as in Math & Music, there are chess "IDIOT SAVANTS"... (I do not admire these.)
Fischer's life's "endgame" pronouncements clearly show he was not one... At least I LEARNED this...
And that's why I "idolized" Dr. Emanuel Lasker - a mathematician, philosopher & world chess champion...
I doubt if there will be another one like him... He was a Jew... Was he a ZIONIST???...
Have so many many more chess IDEAS... BRILLIANT & stupid...
MAYBE shall create brief articles or a separate blog on my "chess wisdom"...
NEXT: EAST ASIAN/JAP GO (CHIN:WEICHI/KOR:BADUK) & NUSANTARAN G.G./GAME OF THE GENERALS(SALPAKAN)
INDO-ARYANS: CHESS
EAST ASIANS: GO
NUSANTARANS: SALPAKAN
TMNP [MR_ABULIA)
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CHESS CONT...
Chess is a mini-scale model of the battlefield/war situation
but some thinkers have gone as far as comparing it to Life itself
& they have good reasons. Not only does the one-on-one
confrontation between two adversaries/contending beings represent a
basic social relation between two persons but some finer points or
elements of the game itself have their corresponding items in Life/the World:
time (tempo), space (territory), hierarchy of roles/functions, etc
[People normally think that one should always be DOING SOMETHING...
Chess ZUGZWANG teachess us that there are occasions where NON-ACTION
is critical (NOT INaction... NONaction or SILENCE, NON-MOVEMENT, PAUSE...]
One cannot make "PASS" in Chess...
And in Life everybody is checkmated!
[Dr. Emanuel Lasker: "In LIfe, we are all duffers."]
Some chess writers speak about power, love, justice,
truth, etc in chess...
STRATEGY refers to general considerations, overall plans...
For ex.: Checkmating the King is the ultimate goal, the fundamental strategic objective
of the game.
100 Peso Question:
Can one become an excellent player, even a supergrandmaster, without
knowing how to checkmate with knight & bishop???
Can one be a good tactician & not even have any definite strategy when playing???
TACTICS refers to the more detailed execution of a plan or circumstances of the game
Example:
CAMPAIGN: KATIPUNAN VS. SPANISH FORCES
STRATEGY: CAPTURE MANILA
TACTICS: SKIRMISH IN TONDO, DIVERSIONARY AMBUSCADES IN NOVALICHES
BUT MAIN FORCE COMES VIA MORONG/SAN JUAN TO OVERRUN INTRAMUROS...
Strategy is about plans, Tactics is about action.
Strategy is brain work by generals, Tactics is bloody work by foot-soldiers.
Strategy is normally fixed, Tactics changes event from moment to moment
MY (JAMAAL'S) BASIC AXIOM/FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE IN WAR, BATTLE, COMPETITION, ETC
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NO AMOUNT OF TACTICAL VICTORY CAN CORRECT A WRONG STRATEGY
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In a sense one can win all the battles and lose the war!
PRECISELY what has been happening to the MUSLIMS ever since
World War I: THEY HAVE EITHER NO (NONE/NIL) OR THE WRONG STRATEGY!!!
I have not "made any money" from my "chess wisdom" but I really believe
that I could have been a GOOD chess coach or even teacher...
MY TWO REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS: NIMZOVICH's MY SYSTEM & FISCHERS'S MY 60 MEMORABLE GAMES
BUT to be READ only AFTER two years of intensive club chess-playing...
ALSO another ADVICE: LEARN FIRST to play RAPID chess...
ALL EXCELLENT CHESS MASTERS ARE FAST PLAYERS...
I am a NOTORIOUSLY SLOW PLAYER (HAR HAR!) & therefore NOT a GOOD player...
In fact, I DO NOT WANT TO MAKE A MOVE EVEN AS WHITE! HAR!
Kung may "PASS" nga sa chess eh mag-pa-PASS aku eh!!!
It's not so much due to proscrastination but more the symptom of INDECISIVENESS (miseducated on/by HAMLET Prince of Denmark??!!...)
A Mid-East friend told me once that I had WEAK WILL (= ABULIA)!
There's method in my madness:
My reasoning is: No Move=>No Action;No Action=>No Trouble;No Trouble=>NO KARMA!!!
-------
DIGRESS:[I lost my "positional sense" & "chess intuition" (skills or natural ability I slowly developed or accumulated thru reading & playing) when I got interested in yoga/meditation.
Before, whenever I looked at the chessboard, it looked "MEANINGful" - the men moved in my imagination. But after the thinking shift, all these "MEANING" vanished. The chessboard now looked barren/unmoving - ala existential desert scene or landscape!
It seems the shift to right brain/hemisphere thinking & one year of misguided vegetarianism
(no milk or lentils/beans for protein!) destroyed a big part of my brain cells.
Analytical & Sequential thinking - math (numerical calculation), chess, computer programming, logic are LEFT controlled whereas artistic imagination, space visualization (?) are RIGHT...
(This was the time when Korchnoi came to RP & played Karpov in Baguio(?). Korchnoi had an Ananda Marga mentor.)
Just like Arab ISLAAM, Indian HINDUISM available outside its place of origin apparently
is not really its genuine/true form- it's the watered-down or even WRONG version!!!]
ISLAAM, HINDUISM, BUDDHISM, JAINISM, SIKHISM, CONFUCIANISM, SHINTOISM, TAOISM, ETC
- all presented to the ignorant masses by their ENEMIES!!!
It's my fault: I first saw chess players as stationary/non-moving persons/apparently doing nothing & completely misinterpreted this scene & this misconception was deeply-imbedded in my memory! [Cf. GBShaw's negative comment on chess & chessplayers]
Anyway, to continue to what I could have been...
But, of course, how can one teach another how to master chess if one is not himself a chess master? Yet I believe I grasp the fundamental principles/techniques for training a child to make QUICK progress. Chess-playing ability is NOT the same as ability in teaching chess.
An academic political scientist is not necessarily a politician. Teaching involves different skills, aptitudes or talents... One may be a chess grandmaster & yet make a poor chess teacher.
And in school, I had countless "laude teachers" who were no-good at teaching!!!
Our collegiate chess group once had an avid newbie who was a BATIL/BAD player
& yet he was a highly-organized, methodical/systematic presenter &
very good at explaining things in graded steps so he was assigned to take a role as lecturer.
He knew much chess theory but he could not apply it in actual play.
In chess, it is not the ACQUISITION but the APPLICATION of theory/know-how/knowledge
that REALLY MATTERS. In the end it is ACTUAL PLAYING that decides.
Again, nevertheless, it is not simply just a question of winning.
If one asks: what makes a good chess player? then the answer is so simple: One who beats anybody and everybody is the CHESS CHAMP. Just like when Fischer was asked if he was
a chess genius & he replied that if he won against Spassky(?) then he was one.
Again things seem easy when said/talked about.
One may have beaten all opponents (100 persons) but if they are all PATZERS/BATILS...
One may have lost all 10 games one ever played. But if these are 40+ movers against the likes of
Morphy, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Botvinnik, Tal & Fischer...!
So, it is not really true that it is only the end result that matters!
So chess, like Life, is not really THAT SIMPLE...
[In a sense, really good players are immensely PRACTICAL people.
I believe a REAL CHESS WIZARD will mate you in one-half move if ever there is such a possibility!]
CHESS & LIFE... One models the other... Which is which?
Chess is like Life... but Life is also like Chess:
Life is a GAME... PLAY it (-the EXISTENTIAL reply to THE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION OF PHILO...)
... The most important thing in Life is not the triumph but the struggle...
It is not the travel destination but the trip/journey that is really the point...
LASTLY, as in Math & Music, there are chess "IDIOT SAVANTS"... (I do not admire these.)
Fischer's life's "endgame" pronouncements clearly show he was not one... At least I LEARNED this...
And that's why I "idolized" Dr. Emanuel Lasker - a mathematician, philosopher & world chess champion...
I doubt if there will be another one like him... He was a Jew... Was he a ZIONIST???...
Have so many many more chess IDEAS... BRILLIANT & stupid...
MAYBE shall create brief articles or a separate blog on my "chess wisdom"...
NEXT: EAST ASIAN/JAP GO (CHIN:WEICHI/KOR:BADUK) & NUSANTARAN G.G./GAME OF THE GENERALS(SALPAKAN)
INDO-ARYANS: CHESS
EAST ASIANS: GO
NUSANTARANS: SALPAKAN
TMNP [MR_ABULIA)
Saturday, May 3, 2008
CHATUR
SUNDAY, MAY 04, 2008
@HOME
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CHESS
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First of all, to make things clear & final, let me state this saw,
which is understood by all chess players, masters & amateurs alike:
"I like chess, but chess does not like me." HAR!
I do not have an iota of talent for the game.
Nevertheless I have achieved something - I earned a chess gold medal
for playing well at last board (HAR!) in inter-university
collegiate team competition. I was a former varsity player for our school team.
My playing strength oscillates from 1800-2100 (CLUB PLAYER)
I have beaten a national master in blitz (He gave me 5-2 partida!) &
in real slow game a master cannot guarantee quick victory since I can be MAKUNAT
just as I will give any grandmaster difficulty at 5-1 BLITZ... MAY TIRA DIN AKU...
Most importantly, I have accumulated CHESS WISDOM - something even its masters do not necessarily have...
In reality, I personally do not possess or I LACK the FIRST & FOREMOST
requirement for chess-playing or requisite quality/identifying mark of good chessplayers:
STRONG WILL(POWER) - I'm the NERVOSO type!
Many people tend to associate chess-playing with thinking/the brain/
"mental"/intelligence. But in reality it is more of a warrior game - game of the NERVES/HEART or EGGS.
It is the game par excellence for fighters or mind warriors or mental gladiators.
It requires FIRST & FOREMOST STRONG EGGS/BALLS/NERVES, the COMPETITIVE URGE the WILL TO CONTEND & WIN & the DESIRE TO CRUSH ONE's OPPONENT/RIVAL
[When I was younger I even felt pity for a losing opponent & allowed him to equalize HAR!]
I assure the unfamiliar reader, chess-players are HEARTLESS individuals
The better player, the more merciless. Of course, this does not mean chessmasters are unloving/uncaring individuals... But over the chessboard, they will checkmate even their own special loved ones! Indeed chessplayers have BIG EGOs & TREMENDOUS SELF-CONFIDENCE or BILIB SA SARILI...
Fischer claimed daw he would checkmate even his own mother!!!
I would say a person with ordinary memory can excel at the game if he/she has that "KILLER-INSTINCT"
I would say the correct basic formula is CHESS ABILITY = 50% WILL + 50% MEMORY
Chess-playing is not really different from fighting a war, legal wrangling, transacting trade,
courting a girl, closing a business deal, passing a job interview etc etc
CHESS, LIKE LIFE, IS A STRUGGLE...
CHESS AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL
I truly believe CHESS is a n EXCELLENT TOOL of EDUCATION
for CHESS IS THE BEST MEANS TO EXPOSE ONE's WEAKNESSES.
You may not LEARN anything directly from it but playing it competitively will expose your weaknesses:
Laziness, procrastination, inaction/indecision, lack of energy/initiative, weak will,
stupidity as in unthinking/nonreflection, etc
& CHESS inculcates thinking/foresight, self-discipline, self-control, concentration, patience, etc...
CHESS IS MORE THAN JUST A GAME.
It's surprising but chess is more than just a boardgame, it is a lot more...
It has a complex & colorful history & is associated with important human events & famous personalities.
In fact, I believe it even has an occult/mystical aspect.
For example the Kalmykian & FIDE (?) world chess federation President Irsan Ilyuzhinov claims
it originated from outer space, maybe from extra-terrestials!
I believe that whenever a chessboard is open especially with two players present
"spirits" hover over them, maybe the spirits of FIGHTING/STRIFE...
NOTE TO GHOST-HUNTERS: Try bringing along a chessboard & set it up in your contact session. I'm quite sure you'll attract unseen forces - unruly as in contentious types o terrifying nga lang!
Before the Fischer-Spassky world match which popularized chess
my aunt's Olongapo curio shop already carried expensive kamagong chess sets but
my brother who was studying in St. Louis Baguio (the cool climate
was good for his asthma) brought home one summer vacation an inexpensive medium-sized
wooden set & Fine's Chess the Easy Way & I learned the moves.
But we, my sister & I were "PIKON" & normally ended up overturning the board & hurling the pieces. One of of our normal childhood antics was to make GULO/ruffle each other's damitan when quarreling
So, the chess pieces ended up with a broken bishop or ear/nose-less knight.
We were too stupid & immature to understand & learn the ART of bloodless fighting...
[I believe BUSH & MCCAIN do not know/play chess 'coz if they did
they would not have gone to VIETNAM & IRAQ to kill people...]
CHESS is precisely the highest & finest development of human warfare/battle/combat...
Just as MONOPOLY or some other game would be the businessman's game, chess is the warrior's game.
CHESS has also been refered to as the philosopher's game or the royal game.
CHESS was developed in ancient times as a model of the actualities of the battlefield or fighting arena
It is an Indo-European/Aryan game that originated in Old India.
It was known then as CHATURANGA & had different form & rules. It evolved thru time
& moved out to PERSIA (as SHAHTRANG). Muslim Arabs brought it as SHATRANJ Westward & it even reached MUSLIM SPAIN. [The CRUSADERS learned it from their ARAB foes & it became "CHRISTIANIZED" - KING with CROSS, the ELEPHANT for example, became the BISHOP with its "NOTCHED-SMILE" representing the BISHOP/POPE's MITER (originally a pagan head-gear symbolic of the fish-deity DAGON.]
[By the way, one of the former world junior champions & a friend
of Bobby Fischer was the GM REVEREND FATHER William Lombardy, a Catholic priest.]
I always heard an old pthisical chess club habitue refer to the bishop as ALFIL.
Later, I understood the term when I saw in the QUR'AN the SURAT UL FIL (VERSE OF THE ELEPHANT)
MUSLIMS NOTE: Muslims learned chess first before Christians. Salahuddin Al Ayyubi (SALADIN) liked the game. But now Muslims are at the bottom of chess competitions if at all they are represented/present.
JEWS had several world champions... Steinitz. Lasker, Fischer, Kasparov
One of the better MUSLIM leaders of the past, the Baghdad Caliph(?) HARUN AL RASHID
had his own chess "stable" - he took care of & supported professional chess players.
Chess was a favorite game of the Knights Templars. Jews - ZIONists or otherwise consider it
as the JEWISH national pastime. Rich Jewish businessmen-patrons of chess included PIATAGORSKY, the ROTSCHILDS... In this archipelago, a Spaniard (or Mestizo?) spy for the Katipunan, Fernando Canon was among the first "masters" in this country.
Canon even played daw in an international tourney in Barcelona, Spain.
Rizal had his own ivory chess set & even won a tourney in Germany(?)
World-champion Alekhine visited Manila in the 1930's.
THe first ASIAN IM? (Cardoso?) was from this country & so was the 1st ASIAN GM (Torre).
SuperGM Anand learned CHESS here.
A strong Mindanawan Muslim player once told me he believed chess pieces corresponded to exact locations in the battlefield - that in the past there really were foot-soldiers, knights & other men in formation in the field. It seems war theorists realized the stupidity & futility of killing humans & just modelled fighting... So chess was born...
M'ranaw culture includes chess (chaturan?) so much so that the chess term "shahmat"
had entered their communication/language... Ask genuine M'ranaws about the word...
Chess came to this archipelago thru two routes - via the Espanoles & via the Moros...
HOW I GOT BITTEN BY THE CHESS BUG
One semester/breaktime before sophomore year (1973?) I returned to Olongapo from Manila for a brief vacation. I visited my grade school & my former classmates who were now also high-schoolers. I was invited to join their beach party. At the beach, I was told proudly by the crowd that an old classmate, an Ilocano-Pangasinense was their school chess champion. He was not a special student (I was the VALEDICTORIAN) but he was a "silent" type. I remember in 6th Grade, he was fond of relating stories about German Nazi movies & he imitated the German lingo "Achtung Achtung ANEYN DI ESPELETAYN KEPA BORDON"! - He also saw the same B&W film with a train & wailing sirens...
Also I got this joke-puzzle from him:
What sign was an illiterate man reading when he uttered "ISE KRE AM POR SA LE?" (Ans: Ice Cream For Sale) He wanted to play with me but I declined since I was not really fond of playing chess. Later after noon/lunch, the two "class sweethearts" B & S were encouraged to play against each other. I watched them play & noticed that the girl was cute/attractive... I kept stealing a glance at her pretty face... To my COMPLETE SURPRISE, the game ended not too long with the girl beating the boy!!! I was DUMBFOUNDED!
It never occurred to me or I never imagined that a male could be beaten by the weaker sex in any game or competition. THAT WAS REALLY SOMETHING NEW, AN EYE-OPENER FOR ME. Suddenly I became interested in CHESS. It offered something I was ignorant of or did not know anything about. It was a "fair" (as in "JUST" as in justice) affair!
I remember very well, the girl, SMF, went home early & was fetched by her family car, a TOYOTA sedan... I watched with "sad longing" her departure... I don't know if as a budding young MAN (developing glands!) I had fallen in love with the smart CHINITA girl or with CHESS... & mixed up the two... That is, my pubescent crush-@-1st-sight on her became associated with the game of CHESS & my fascination shifted to the game... That fascination "never cooled" I wonder if there is a psychological principle that can explain this possible transference/shift...
But from that moment on I was "possessed" by the CHESS FEVER...
THE FASCINATION WITH CHESS stayed with me until I graduated from secondary school (ADEMU) & entered college (UPD). I began to devour anything & everything I saw about CHESS - books, magazines, pictures, etc. I borrowed all the chess books in our high school library:
Znosko-Borovsky's Art of Combination, New York 1924, Botvinnik, etc.
Even bought NBS Reinfeld How to Win Chess Games Quickly (BUT COULD NOT DO IT! HAR!)
I read the articles in the Philippine Panorama(?) magazine, solved puzzles of Bulletin Today...
I imbibed myself with chess trivia. Memorized faces, names of chess personalities & openings...
But note that I did not really play chess competitively... I was just obsessed with CHESS as an object of interest in/of/with its own intrinsic nature... even minus the human factor...
Of course I was also awed by the "masters"... Anything CHECKERED always caught my eye/attention... I was hypnotized everytime I saw checkered patterns of floor/bathroom tiles, bedcovers/tablecloth, etc...
In 4th year HS I joined the chess club & began to PLAY...
CHESS always held a special place in my mind...
It was about the/this (same) time that MATH also caught my ATTENTION (Via GEOMETRY)... I need mention that I was also learning MUSIC (piano-playiing)... CHESS, MUSIC, MATH...
TO BE CONTINUED
@HOME
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CHESS
=====
First of all, to make things clear & final, let me state this saw,
which is understood by all chess players, masters & amateurs alike:
"I like chess, but chess does not like me." HAR!
I do not have an iota of talent for the game.
Nevertheless I have achieved something - I earned a chess gold medal
for playing well at last board (HAR!) in inter-university
collegiate team competition. I was a former varsity player for our school team.
My playing strength oscillates from 1800-2100 (CLUB PLAYER)
I have beaten a national master in blitz (He gave me 5-2 partida!) &
in real slow game a master cannot guarantee quick victory since I can be MAKUNAT
just as I will give any grandmaster difficulty at 5-1 BLITZ... MAY TIRA DIN AKU...
Most importantly, I have accumulated CHESS WISDOM - something even its masters do not necessarily have...
In reality, I personally do not possess or I LACK the FIRST & FOREMOST
requirement for chess-playing or requisite quality/identifying mark of good chessplayers:
STRONG WILL(POWER) - I'm the NERVOSO type!
Many people tend to associate chess-playing with thinking/the brain/
"mental"/intelligence. But in reality it is more of a warrior game - game of the NERVES/HEART or EGGS.
It is the game par excellence for fighters or mind warriors or mental gladiators.
It requires FIRST & FOREMOST STRONG EGGS/BALLS/NERVES, the COMPETITIVE URGE the WILL TO CONTEND & WIN & the DESIRE TO CRUSH ONE's OPPONENT/RIVAL
[When I was younger I even felt pity for a losing opponent & allowed him to equalize HAR!]
I assure the unfamiliar reader, chess-players are HEARTLESS individuals
The better player, the more merciless. Of course, this does not mean chessmasters are unloving/uncaring individuals... But over the chessboard, they will checkmate even their own special loved ones! Indeed chessplayers have BIG EGOs & TREMENDOUS SELF-CONFIDENCE or BILIB SA SARILI...
Fischer claimed daw he would checkmate even his own mother!!!
I would say a person with ordinary memory can excel at the game if he/she has that "KILLER-INSTINCT"
I would say the correct basic formula is CHESS ABILITY = 50% WILL + 50% MEMORY
Chess-playing is not really different from fighting a war, legal wrangling, transacting trade,
courting a girl, closing a business deal, passing a job interview etc etc
CHESS, LIKE LIFE, IS A STRUGGLE...
CHESS AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL
I truly believe CHESS is a n EXCELLENT TOOL of EDUCATION
for CHESS IS THE BEST MEANS TO EXPOSE ONE's WEAKNESSES.
You may not LEARN anything directly from it but playing it competitively will expose your weaknesses:
Laziness, procrastination, inaction/indecision, lack of energy/initiative, weak will,
stupidity as in unthinking/nonreflection, etc
& CHESS inculcates thinking/foresight, self-discipline, self-control, concentration, patience, etc...
CHESS IS MORE THAN JUST A GAME.
It's surprising but chess is more than just a boardgame, it is a lot more...
It has a complex & colorful history & is associated with important human events & famous personalities.
In fact, I believe it even has an occult/mystical aspect.
For example the Kalmykian & FIDE (?) world chess federation President Irsan Ilyuzhinov claims
it originated from outer space, maybe from extra-terrestials!
I believe that whenever a chessboard is open especially with two players present
"spirits" hover over them, maybe the spirits of FIGHTING/STRIFE...
NOTE TO GHOST-HUNTERS: Try bringing along a chessboard & set it up in your contact session. I'm quite sure you'll attract unseen forces - unruly as in contentious types o terrifying nga lang!
Before the Fischer-Spassky world match which popularized chess
my aunt's Olongapo curio shop already carried expensive kamagong chess sets but
my brother who was studying in St. Louis Baguio (the cool climate
was good for his asthma) brought home one summer vacation an inexpensive medium-sized
wooden set & Fine's Chess the Easy Way & I learned the moves.
But we, my sister & I were "PIKON" & normally ended up overturning the board & hurling the pieces. One of of our normal childhood antics was to make GULO/ruffle each other's damitan when quarreling
So, the chess pieces ended up with a broken bishop or ear/nose-less knight.
We were too stupid & immature to understand & learn the ART of bloodless fighting...
[I believe BUSH & MCCAIN do not know/play chess 'coz if they did
they would not have gone to VIETNAM & IRAQ to kill people...]
CHESS is precisely the highest & finest development of human warfare/battle/combat...
Just as MONOPOLY or some other game would be the businessman's game, chess is the warrior's game.
CHESS has also been refered to as the philosopher's game or the royal game.
CHESS was developed in ancient times as a model of the actualities of the battlefield or fighting arena
It is an Indo-European/Aryan game that originated in Old India.
It was known then as CHATURANGA & had different form & rules. It evolved thru time
& moved out to PERSIA (as SHAHTRANG). Muslim Arabs brought it as SHATRANJ Westward & it even reached MUSLIM SPAIN. [The CRUSADERS learned it from their ARAB foes & it became "CHRISTIANIZED" - KING with CROSS, the ELEPHANT for example, became the BISHOP with its "NOTCHED-SMILE" representing the BISHOP/POPE's MITER (originally a pagan head-gear symbolic of the fish-deity DAGON.]
[By the way, one of the former world junior champions & a friend
of Bobby Fischer was the GM REVEREND FATHER William Lombardy, a Catholic priest.]
I always heard an old pthisical chess club habitue refer to the bishop as ALFIL.
Later, I understood the term when I saw in the QUR'AN the SURAT UL FIL (VERSE OF THE ELEPHANT)
MUSLIMS NOTE: Muslims learned chess first before Christians. Salahuddin Al Ayyubi (SALADIN) liked the game. But now Muslims are at the bottom of chess competitions if at all they are represented/present.
JEWS had several world champions... Steinitz. Lasker, Fischer, Kasparov
One of the better MUSLIM leaders of the past, the Baghdad Caliph(?) HARUN AL RASHID
had his own chess "stable" - he took care of & supported professional chess players.
Chess was a favorite game of the Knights Templars. Jews - ZIONists or otherwise consider it
as the JEWISH national pastime. Rich Jewish businessmen-patrons of chess included PIATAGORSKY, the ROTSCHILDS... In this archipelago, a Spaniard (or Mestizo?) spy for the Katipunan, Fernando Canon was among the first "masters" in this country.
Canon even played daw in an international tourney in Barcelona, Spain.
Rizal had his own ivory chess set & even won a tourney in Germany(?)
World-champion Alekhine visited Manila in the 1930's.
THe first ASIAN IM? (Cardoso?) was from this country & so was the 1st ASIAN GM (Torre).
SuperGM Anand learned CHESS here.
A strong Mindanawan Muslim player once told me he believed chess pieces corresponded to exact locations in the battlefield - that in the past there really were foot-soldiers, knights & other men in formation in the field. It seems war theorists realized the stupidity & futility of killing humans & just modelled fighting... So chess was born...
M'ranaw culture includes chess (chaturan?) so much so that the chess term "shahmat"
had entered their communication/language... Ask genuine M'ranaws about the word...
Chess came to this archipelago thru two routes - via the Espanoles & via the Moros...
HOW I GOT BITTEN BY THE CHESS BUG
One semester/breaktime before sophomore year (1973?) I returned to Olongapo from Manila for a brief vacation. I visited my grade school & my former classmates who were now also high-schoolers. I was invited to join their beach party. At the beach, I was told proudly by the crowd that an old classmate, an Ilocano-Pangasinense was their school chess champion. He was not a special student (I was the VALEDICTORIAN) but he was a "silent" type. I remember in 6th Grade, he was fond of relating stories about German Nazi movies & he imitated the German lingo "Achtung Achtung ANEYN DI ESPELETAYN KEPA BORDON"! - He also saw the same B&W film with a train & wailing sirens...
Also I got this joke-puzzle from him:
What sign was an illiterate man reading when he uttered "ISE KRE AM POR SA LE?" (Ans: Ice Cream For Sale) He wanted to play with me but I declined since I was not really fond of playing chess. Later after noon/lunch, the two "class sweethearts" B & S were encouraged to play against each other. I watched them play & noticed that the girl was cute/attractive... I kept stealing a glance at her pretty face... To my COMPLETE SURPRISE, the game ended not too long with the girl beating the boy!!! I was DUMBFOUNDED!
It never occurred to me or I never imagined that a male could be beaten by the weaker sex in any game or competition. THAT WAS REALLY SOMETHING NEW, AN EYE-OPENER FOR ME. Suddenly I became interested in CHESS. It offered something I was ignorant of or did not know anything about. It was a "fair" (as in "JUST" as in justice) affair!
I remember very well, the girl, SMF, went home early & was fetched by her family car, a TOYOTA sedan... I watched with "sad longing" her departure... I don't know if as a budding young MAN (developing glands!) I had fallen in love with the smart CHINITA girl or with CHESS... & mixed up the two... That is, my pubescent crush-@-1st-sight on her became associated with the game of CHESS & my fascination shifted to the game... That fascination "never cooled" I wonder if there is a psychological principle that can explain this possible transference/shift...
But from that moment on I was "possessed" by the CHESS FEVER...
THE FASCINATION WITH CHESS stayed with me until I graduated from secondary school (ADEMU) & entered college (UPD). I began to devour anything & everything I saw about CHESS - books, magazines, pictures, etc. I borrowed all the chess books in our high school library:
Znosko-Borovsky's Art of Combination, New York 1924, Botvinnik, etc.
Even bought NBS Reinfeld How to Win Chess Games Quickly (BUT COULD NOT DO IT! HAR!)
I read the articles in the Philippine Panorama(?) magazine, solved puzzles of Bulletin Today...
I imbibed myself with chess trivia. Memorized faces, names of chess personalities & openings...
But note that I did not really play chess competitively... I was just obsessed with CHESS as an object of interest in/of/with its own intrinsic nature... even minus the human factor...
Of course I was also awed by the "masters"... Anything CHECKERED always caught my eye/attention... I was hypnotized everytime I saw checkered patterns of floor/bathroom tiles, bedcovers/tablecloth, etc...
In 4th year HS I joined the chess club & began to PLAY...
CHESS always held a special place in my mind...
It was about the/this (same) time that MATH also caught my ATTENTION (Via GEOMETRY)... I need mention that I was also learning MUSIC (piano-playiing)... CHESS, MUSIC, MATH...
TO BE CONTINUED
Thursday, May 1, 2008
MAY 02, 2008
MAY 02, 2008
@Home
WHAT IS THE REAL REASON WHY LABOR DAY IS CELEBRATED ON MAY 1??? [A CONSPIRATORIAL QUESTION]
So many things have transpired in global affairs since I paused blogging/posting a few months ago...
NOW SUDDENLY the world is going HUNGRY... AS IF this PROBLEM is NEW...
Other commodity/product conspiracy groups (not just OIL CARTEL) have decided
that they also want to HAVE A SAY in WORLD AFFAIRS... (Better late then never)
I wonder when they will raise the price of WATER (NOT the PLASTIC BOTTLE)!!!
I heard in one TV item that only 3% of WORLD H20 is FRESH H20
& of this only 1% is REALLY DRINKABLE, the other 1% is UNDERGROUND/INACCESSIBLE
& the last 1% IS BEING POLLUTED BY HUMANS...
I WONDER how they GET such PERCENTAGES & DATA...
FOR ME WHAT I KNOW IS THAT THERE IS MORE THAN ENOUGH H20 TO DROWN ALL NON-AQUATIC ANIMALS & THAT SCIENCE HAS FOUND EFFICIENT WAYS TO PRODUCE FRESH H20 FROM SALTY SEA H20 (e.g. NUCLEAR DESALINATION & REVERSE OSMOSIS)
I truly believe this WORLD had REALLY TURNED FOR THE WORSE ever since they started SELLING H20...
When BOTTLED H20 began to appear here in Manila years back, my first impression was that I FELT INSULTED...
Whenever I saw H20 vendors in the bus, the thought would come to my mind
or I felt the urge to tell them: "I'll buy your product even at TWICE the
price IF you'll tell me you're selling me PLASTIC BOTTLE & NOT WATER!!!"
I felt they should call out loud or say "BOTE BOTE BOTE NG PLASTIC" & NOT "TUBIG"
In my younger days, one only needed to ask politely & one would be given FREE even a whole gallon of ice-cold, clean drinking H20 in GLASS TUMBLER here in these islands - islands almost swallowed by the ocean...
BOTTLED AIR is NOT NEW - I saw an item about it in connection with JAPAN'S allegedly POLLUTED AIR...
I wonder when THEY will COMMERCIALIZE BOTTLED AIR for ordinary breathing...
ONCE I thought of having a special printed T-SHIRT which says,
"IF YOU'RE INTELLIGENT THEN WHY ARE YOU BUYING WATER?"
[THERE IS MASS STUPIDITY. THERE IS NO MASS INTELLIGENCE]
ZIMBABWE
Two black men Tsvangirai & Mugabe fighting - Their real bosses/handlers are white men?
Zimbabwe BALLOT BOXES are used here as SAGO/GULAMAN containers HAR!!!
MEDIA
News says TURKEY says ISRAEL ready to talk peace with SYRIA
Also, EGYPT says ISRAEL ready to peace talk with HAMAS
BOTH items give the idea that TURKEY & EGYPT are speaking for/in behalf of ISRAEL!
Since WHEN did these two MUSLIM countries become ZIONISTS?!
[MY ANSWER: SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL WHEN THEY CREATED THESE NATION-STATES...
THOSE WHO CREATED "ISRAEL" ARE PRECISELY THE SAME PEOPLE WHO CREATED "TURKEY" & "EGYPT"!!!
TWO IMPORTANT ALJAZEERA FEATURES: KHALIFA & KIRSAN ILYUZHIMOV
3 Q's about KHALIFA: Was he killed because
1) he was raising funds for AL-QAEDA,
2) he turned against AL-QAEDA (his alleged taped voice says BINLADIN was infected with VIRUS)
3) of his SAPPHIRE mine (A certain "Olivier" or his gang?...)
WHICH is REALLY IMPORTANT: KHALIFA's SAPPHIRE MINE(MONEY) OR his LAPTOP COMPUTER(INTELL INFO)???
ILYUZHIMOV of KALMYKA (MONGOL HORDE DESCENDANTS) is a CENTRAL ASIAN BUDDHIST CAPITALIST CHESS BUFF
who claims E.T.'s/U.F.O. once kidnapped him! It seems we have the same INTERESTS: CHESS, E.T...
I ADVISE INFLUENTIAL MUSLIMS: SEND some representatives to his country to learn CHESS...
IRAN drops U.S. DOLLAR & blasts HILLARY CLINTON
I NOTICED both BUSH & HILLARY wearing MY fave color GREEN...
Just like the necktie of that DUTCH lawmaker(?)...
BUT FOR ME GREEN MEANS ISLAAM's PARADISE...
I'M QUITE SURE THEIR GREEN IS GREEN BUCK (DOLLAR) HAR HAR!!!
I LOVE PARADISE I HATE MONEY...
VATICAN POPE blesses NY WTC "GROUND ZERO"
WHY YEARS LATE??? (MORE THAN HALF A DECADE!!!)
"JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED" (Better never than late)
It appears that the Catholic Pope is "riding only" on the issue...
WHY DID HE ALLOW HIMSELF TO BE SEEN WITH BUSH AFTER ALL THESE EVENTS HAVE HAPPENED (IRAQ WAR, ETC.)?
ANYBODY WHO ALLOWS HIM/HERSELF TO BE SEEN WITH BUSH IN A HIGH-PROFILE AFFAIR IS HIS FRIEND & ALLY
SINCE BUSH IS ALREADY ABOUT TO MAKE AN EXIT... ONE SHOULD FEEL EXTREMELY EMBARRASSED TO BE SEEN WITH HIM!
TIBET & CHINA
I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE ISSUE BUT I CAN ONLY CONTRIBUTE THE FOLLOWING "LIMERICK?"
[Actually as a child I remember seeing in the maps TIBET as a distinct/separate NATION-STATE... Now there's no more U.S.S.R....
Why is there a unified GERMANY, a unified VIETNAM, a unified YEMEN, but NOT a unified KOREA?...
==========
OGDEN NASH
==========
THE ONE-L LAMA
HE's A PRIEST
THE TWO-L LLAMA
HE'S A BEAST
AND I WILL BET
MY SILK PYJAMA
THAT THERE'S NO
THREE-L LLLAMA
MY CORRECTION TO NASH:
NOW THERE IS,
Now there is a three-L LLLAMA
It's a SPECIES OF CHOROPS!!!
@Home
WHAT IS THE REAL REASON WHY LABOR DAY IS CELEBRATED ON MAY 1??? [A CONSPIRATORIAL QUESTION]
So many things have transpired in global affairs since I paused blogging/posting a few months ago...
NOW SUDDENLY the world is going HUNGRY... AS IF this PROBLEM is NEW...
Other commodity/product conspiracy groups (not just OIL CARTEL) have decided
that they also want to HAVE A SAY in WORLD AFFAIRS... (Better late then never)
I wonder when they will raise the price of WATER (NOT the PLASTIC BOTTLE)!!!
I heard in one TV item that only 3% of WORLD H20 is FRESH H20
& of this only 1% is REALLY DRINKABLE, the other 1% is UNDERGROUND/INACCESSIBLE
& the last 1% IS BEING POLLUTED BY HUMANS...
I WONDER how they GET such PERCENTAGES & DATA...
FOR ME WHAT I KNOW IS THAT THERE IS MORE THAN ENOUGH H20 TO DROWN ALL NON-AQUATIC ANIMALS & THAT SCIENCE HAS FOUND EFFICIENT WAYS TO PRODUCE FRESH H20 FROM SALTY SEA H20 (e.g. NUCLEAR DESALINATION & REVERSE OSMOSIS)
I truly believe this WORLD had REALLY TURNED FOR THE WORSE ever since they started SELLING H20...
When BOTTLED H20 began to appear here in Manila years back, my first impression was that I FELT INSULTED...
Whenever I saw H20 vendors in the bus, the thought would come to my mind
or I felt the urge to tell them: "I'll buy your product even at TWICE the
price IF you'll tell me you're selling me PLASTIC BOTTLE & NOT WATER!!!"
I felt they should call out loud or say "BOTE BOTE BOTE NG PLASTIC" & NOT "TUBIG"
In my younger days, one only needed to ask politely & one would be given FREE even a whole gallon of ice-cold, clean drinking H20 in GLASS TUMBLER here in these islands - islands almost swallowed by the ocean...
BOTTLED AIR is NOT NEW - I saw an item about it in connection with JAPAN'S allegedly POLLUTED AIR...
I wonder when THEY will COMMERCIALIZE BOTTLED AIR for ordinary breathing...
ONCE I thought of having a special printed T-SHIRT which says,
"IF YOU'RE INTELLIGENT THEN WHY ARE YOU BUYING WATER?"
[THERE IS MASS STUPIDITY. THERE IS NO MASS INTELLIGENCE]
ZIMBABWE
Two black men Tsvangirai & Mugabe fighting - Their real bosses/handlers are white men?
Zimbabwe BALLOT BOXES are used here as SAGO/GULAMAN containers HAR!!!
MEDIA
News says TURKEY says ISRAEL ready to talk peace with SYRIA
Also, EGYPT says ISRAEL ready to peace talk with HAMAS
BOTH items give the idea that TURKEY & EGYPT are speaking for/in behalf of ISRAEL!
Since WHEN did these two MUSLIM countries become ZIONISTS?!
[MY ANSWER: SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL WHEN THEY CREATED THESE NATION-STATES...
THOSE WHO CREATED "ISRAEL" ARE PRECISELY THE SAME PEOPLE WHO CREATED "TURKEY" & "EGYPT"!!!
TWO IMPORTANT ALJAZEERA FEATURES: KHALIFA & KIRSAN ILYUZHIMOV
3 Q's about KHALIFA: Was he killed because
1) he was raising funds for AL-QAEDA,
2) he turned against AL-QAEDA (his alleged taped voice says BINLADIN was infected with VIRUS)
3) of his SAPPHIRE mine (A certain "Olivier" or his gang?...)
WHICH is REALLY IMPORTANT: KHALIFA's SAPPHIRE MINE(MONEY) OR his LAPTOP COMPUTER(INTELL INFO)???
ILYUZHIMOV of KALMYKA (MONGOL HORDE DESCENDANTS) is a CENTRAL ASIAN BUDDHIST CAPITALIST CHESS BUFF
who claims E.T.'s/U.F.O. once kidnapped him! It seems we have the same INTERESTS: CHESS, E.T...
I ADVISE INFLUENTIAL MUSLIMS: SEND some representatives to his country to learn CHESS...
IRAN drops U.S. DOLLAR & blasts HILLARY CLINTON
I NOTICED both BUSH & HILLARY wearing MY fave color GREEN...
Just like the necktie of that DUTCH lawmaker(?)...
BUT FOR ME GREEN MEANS ISLAAM's PARADISE...
I'M QUITE SURE THEIR GREEN IS GREEN BUCK (DOLLAR) HAR HAR!!!
I LOVE PARADISE I HATE MONEY...
VATICAN POPE blesses NY WTC "GROUND ZERO"
WHY YEARS LATE??? (MORE THAN HALF A DECADE!!!)
"JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED" (Better never than late)
It appears that the Catholic Pope is "riding only" on the issue...
WHY DID HE ALLOW HIMSELF TO BE SEEN WITH BUSH AFTER ALL THESE EVENTS HAVE HAPPENED (IRAQ WAR, ETC.)?
ANYBODY WHO ALLOWS HIM/HERSELF TO BE SEEN WITH BUSH IN A HIGH-PROFILE AFFAIR IS HIS FRIEND & ALLY
SINCE BUSH IS ALREADY ABOUT TO MAKE AN EXIT... ONE SHOULD FEEL EXTREMELY EMBARRASSED TO BE SEEN WITH HIM!
TIBET & CHINA
I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE ISSUE BUT I CAN ONLY CONTRIBUTE THE FOLLOWING "LIMERICK?"
[Actually as a child I remember seeing in the maps TIBET as a distinct/separate NATION-STATE... Now there's no more U.S.S.R....
Why is there a unified GERMANY, a unified VIETNAM, a unified YEMEN, but NOT a unified KOREA?...
==========
OGDEN NASH
==========
THE ONE-L LAMA
HE's A PRIEST
THE TWO-L LLAMA
HE'S A BEAST
AND I WILL BET
MY SILK PYJAMA
THAT THERE'S NO
THREE-L LLLAMA
MY CORRECTION TO NASH:
NOW THERE IS,
Now there is a three-L LLLAMA
It's a SPECIES OF CHOROPS!!!
Sunday, April 27, 2008
April 27, 2008
April 27, 2008
In an Internet cafe @ San Francisco Del Monte Road...
Walked all the way from West Avenue
after I overshot Roosevelt Ave. Har Har
Have to rove around Manila...
My mother invited some visitors at home
'coz it is the death anniversary of my aunt? or father?
For me there is no point in remembering the dead...
One must treat them well while they are still alive...
Went out at around noon & proceeded to SM ASIA mall...
Whenever I go to malls I am struck by the huge amount of
"capital" (=wealth=money) reflected in the material objects
(buildings, physical structures & goods/products) available there...
I always think, WHOSE capital is this?
I know the natives are POOR... THIS WEALTH is not OURs...
Then proceeded to Sta Cruz, Manila & walked along Avenida...
Rode a jeepney to SM North EDSA but changed my mind so I ended
up here along SFDel Monte!!! While riding the jeepney as it drove along
Espana/Quezon Ave., I was struck by the "aura" of POVERTY of the people
around me... I don't know but I feel this whole metropolis is a huge
SQUATTER AREA of the islanders... Madudungis na mga tau at mga bahay, pati mga
building malilibag... Tila ba dumidikit ang dumi sa mga tau at mga structures...
Parang tau/bahay/building na GRASA... (Sasabihin ng iba "JINNED" ang mga taung
grasa)... Hindi kaya "negatively-charged" ang buong metropolis kaya ang tendency
ng dumi at alikabok ay dumikit sa katawan ng tau?...
Parang PIGANG-PIGA na ang lugar na ito... Wala nang katas na mapipiga...
E-2-2-LOY
In an Internet cafe @ San Francisco Del Monte Road...
Walked all the way from West Avenue
after I overshot Roosevelt Ave. Har Har
Have to rove around Manila...
My mother invited some visitors at home
'coz it is the death anniversary of my aunt? or father?
For me there is no point in remembering the dead...
One must treat them well while they are still alive...
Went out at around noon & proceeded to SM ASIA mall...
Whenever I go to malls I am struck by the huge amount of
"capital" (=wealth=money) reflected in the material objects
(buildings, physical structures & goods/products) available there...
I always think, WHOSE capital is this?
I know the natives are POOR... THIS WEALTH is not OURs...
Then proceeded to Sta Cruz, Manila & walked along Avenida...
Rode a jeepney to SM North EDSA but changed my mind so I ended
up here along SFDel Monte!!! While riding the jeepney as it drove along
Espana/Quezon Ave., I was struck by the "aura" of POVERTY of the people
around me... I don't know but I feel this whole metropolis is a huge
SQUATTER AREA of the islanders... Madudungis na mga tau at mga bahay, pati mga
building malilibag... Tila ba dumidikit ang dumi sa mga tau at mga structures...
Parang tau/bahay/building na GRASA... (Sasabihin ng iba "JINNED" ang mga taung
grasa)... Hindi kaya "negatively-charged" ang buong metropolis kaya ang tendency
ng dumi at alikabok ay dumikit sa katawan ng tau?...
Parang PIGANG-PIGA na ang lugar na ito... Wala nang katas na mapipiga...
E-2-2-LOY
Monday, March 17, 2008
36th POST
March 18, 2008
U.P. Diliman SC
Back to blogging...
At this exact moment am looking at (sneaking/spying on) what another internet cafe customer is doing... The girl on my left... Saw her name... Looks familiar... Am tempted to talk to her.... Ask her something... I have a good reason for starting a conversation... BUT... I have decided to go against the temptation... TEMPTATIOUS...TEMPTATION KASI EH HAR! HAR!
Just created a NEW BLOG
=======================
http://the-chorops.blogspot.com
=======================
Included is a "PHOTO" ... OF course , NOT MY PHOTO
but that mythical (or real?) "Uncle Sam" (=SAMael???) equivalent to the Filipinos'
Juan De La Cruz - or is it John Smith??? I forgot what it is but there is an English word
for this icon which is used to represent a people... It's a "____NYM" like eponym, synonym, antonym, homonym etc etc
Notice the PENTAGRAM or 5-pointed STAR on Uncle Sam's hat?
What is its significance, meaning?... Occult? Conspiratorial?...
The girlon my left is working on/typing some ... CHOROPS!!!
TMNP
U.P. Diliman SC
Back to blogging...
At this exact moment am looking at (sneaking/spying on) what another internet cafe customer is doing... The girl on my left... Saw her name... Looks familiar... Am tempted to talk to her.... Ask her something... I have a good reason for starting a conversation... BUT... I have decided to go against the temptation... TEMPTATIOUS...TEMPTATION KASI EH HAR! HAR!
Just created a NEW BLOG
=======================
http://the-chorops.blogspot.com
=======================
Included is a "PHOTO" ... OF course , NOT MY PHOTO
but that mythical (or real?) "Uncle Sam" (=SAMael???) equivalent to the Filipinos'
Juan De La Cruz - or is it John Smith??? I forgot what it is but there is an English word
for this icon which is used to represent a people... It's a "____NYM" like eponym, synonym, antonym, homonym etc etc
Notice the PENTAGRAM or 5-pointed STAR on Uncle Sam's hat?
What is its significance, meaning?... Occult? Conspiratorial?...
The girlon my left is working on/typing some ... CHOROPS!!!
TMNP
Monday, March 3, 2008
35th POST
March 04, 2008
A MUST reading that I will just copy everything in my own blog...
I'm sharing this Lesson on MONEY... Reflect on the quotations...
From a site www.seek2know ???
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be." -- Thomas Jefferson
The word money came from the Latin word "moneta" which originally meant, "warning."
See word origin for other words like capital, mortgage, bank etc.
See article on Transforming Money
To help just Print, Read and Share the Vision of sustainable Peace & Trust Money. Hold the Vision with Love. Then bless it and let it fly free.
Be Part of a Solution
Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal
-- that there is no human relation between master and slave." - Leo Tolstoy
"All of the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arises,
not from the defects of the Constitution or Confederation,
not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation." -- John Adams, Founding Father
"History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit,
and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance."
- President James Madison
"You are a den of vipers and thieves and I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.
If Congress has the right to issue paper money, it was given them to be used by themselves,
and not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.." -- Andrew Jackson's address to Congress 1829
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies." - Thomas Jefferson.
"I have two great enemies, the southern army in front of me and the financial institutions, in the rear.
Of the two, the one in the rear is the greatest enemy.....
I see in the future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.
As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow,
and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of the war."
- Abraham Lincoln
"I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our constitution - taking from the federal government their power of borrowing." Thomas Jefferson, 1798
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency,
first by inflation then by deflation, the banks and the corporations will grow up around them,
will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent
their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people,
to whom it properly belongs." -Thomas Jefferson, The Debate Over The Recharter Of The Bank Bill, (1809).
This prophesy has come true.
"In the Colonies, we issue our own paper money. It is called 'Colonial Scrip.'
We issue it in proper proportion to make the goods and pass easily from the producers to the consumers.
In this manner, creating ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power and we have no interest to pay to no one. In this manner, by creating ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power, and we have no interest to pay, to anyone.
You see, a legitimate government can both spend and lend money into circulation,
while banks can only lend significant amounts of their promissory bank notes,
for they can neither give away nor spend but a tiny fraction of the money the people need.
Thus, when your bankers here in England place money in circulation,
there is always a debt principal to be returned and usury to be paid.
The result is that you have always too little credit in circulation to give the workers full employment.
You do not have too many workers, you have too little money in circulation, and that which circulates,
all bears the endless burden of unpayable debt and usury." - Benjamin Franklin Autobiography
"If this mischievous financial policy, which has its origin in North America,
shall become endurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost.
It will pay off debts and be without debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce.
It will become prosperous without precedent in the history of the world. The brains, and wealth of all countries
will go to North America. That country must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe."
- Hazard Circular - London Times 1865
"The government should create, issue and circulate all the currency and credit needed to satisfy
the spending power of the government and the buying power of consumers.....
The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of Government,
but it is the Government's greatest creative opportunity. By the adoption of these principles,
the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts and exchanges. The financing of all public enterprises, the maintenance of stable government and ordered progress, and the conduct of the Treasury will become matters of practical administration.
The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own government.
Money will cease to be the master and become the servant of humanity.
Democracy will rise superior to the money power."
-Lincoln Abraham Senate document 23, Page 91. 1865
"The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War
by the high financial powers of Europe. These bankers were afraid that the US, if they remained as one block, and as one nation, would attain economic and financial independence, which would upset their financial domination over the world." - Otto von Bismark, Chancellor of Germany 1876
"Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce."
- President James A. Garfield (1831-1881)
"The earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race."
As the land gets cultivated, "it is the value of the improvement, only, and not the earth itself,
that is in individual property. Every proprietor, therefore, of cultivated lands, owes to the community a ground-rent.. to every person, rich or poor...because it is in lieu of the natural inheritance, which, as a right, belongs to every man, over and above the property he may have created, or inherited from those who did"
- Thomas Paine 1796, p. 611; 612-613
"When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes... Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte, 1815
"If our nation can issue a dollar bond, it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good,
makes the bill good, also. The difference between the bond and the bill is the bond lets money brokers
collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%, whereas the currency pays nobody but those
who contribute directly in some useful way. It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30 million in bonds
and not $30 million in currency. Both are promises to pay, but one promise fattens the usurers and the other helps
the people. " - Thomas Edison, The New York Times, December 6, 1921
"The Central Banks (which charge interest to governments for the money they produce from out of nothing,
with no labour or wealth involved) have secured these loans against your future taxes. Without even asking you, a substantial part of your future worth has been put up as collateral.
What Central Banks do in a big way with countries, your local bank will replicate on organisations and individuals, using the same slight of hand to produce the funds they lend out of thin air."
- Alternative Trading Network article
"Whosoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...
And when you realise that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate."
- James Garfield (assassinated within weeks of release of this statement during first year of his Presidency in 1881)
"Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history" - Karl Marx (Communist Manifesto)
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws." - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, 1790
"Those few who can understand the system (check book money and credit) will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on it favors, that there will be little opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear it burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests."
- The Rothschild Brothers of London
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft
from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
It is spending the sweat of it laborers, the genius of its scientists and the hopes of its children"
— President Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Since 1940, Washington has spent the unimaginable sum of $20 trillion ($20,000,000,000,000!) on the military
--enough money to have provided for adequate nutrition, clean water, electrification, housing, literacy,
and basic health care for the world's entire population.
In the next four years alone an additional $1.2 trillion will go down the military rathole.
Today the U.S. military budget is bigger than that of the rest of the United Nations Security Council members combined.
This bloated military establishment exists to protect and serve U.S. capital--not only to extend and maintain
its domination in what used to be called the Third World, the oppressed countries, but also vis-a-vis its imperialist allies and rivals."
- Richard Becker
"The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom.
There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt modern civilization."
- Otto von Bismarck, German Chancellor (1815-1898), after Lincoln assassination.
"Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin.
The Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits,
and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again.
However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear,
and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in.
But if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery,
let them continue to create deposits."
- Sir Josiah Stamp, President of the Bank of England in the 1920's, the second richest man in Britain
"Because of 'fractional' reserve system, banks, as a whole, can expand our money supply several times,
by making loans and investments." "Commercial banks create checkbook money whenever they grant a loan, simply by adding new deposit dollars in accounts on their books in exchange for a borrower's IOU."
- Federal Reserve Bank, New York
"The actual process of money creation takes place in commercial banks.
As noted earlier, demand liabilities of commercial banks are money..
"Confidence in these forms of money also seems to be tied in some way
to the fact that assets exist on the books of the government and the banks
equal to the amount of money outstanding, even though most of the assets themselves
are no more than pieces of paper--.",
P.3.
"Commercial banks create checkbook money whenever they grant a loan,
simply by adding new deposit dollars in accounts on their books in exchange for a borrower's IOU.",
p. 19.
"The 12 regional reserve banks aren't government institutions,
but corporations nominally 'owned' by member commercial banks.",
p. 27.- Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
"The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity
is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it (p15).
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled."
- John Kenneth Galbraith, Money: Whence it came, where it went - 1975, p29.
"The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing."
- William Paterson (founder of Bank of England 1694)
"The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing.
The process is, perhaps, the most, astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented.
Banks can in fact inflate, mint, and un-mint the modern ledger-entry currency".
Major L. L. B. Angus
"Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment, out of nothing."
- Ralph M. Hawtery (Former Secretary of the British Treasury)
"Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal
-- that there is no human relation between master and slave."
- Leo Tolstoy
"There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates,
to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act.
In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so.
I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for 20 years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret record."
- Carroll Quigley, Georgetown University professor (deceased),
in Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time, 1966, p.950
"The greatest enemy of mankind is his ignorance of the inherent money power in all of us.
When the realization of this comes to man, he will like Samson, push down the walls of his prison."
- E.C. Riegel
"In numerous years following the war, the Federal Government ran a heavy surplus.
It could not (however) pay off its debt, retire its securities, because to do so
meant there would be no bonds to back the national bank notes.
To pay off the debt was to destroy the money supply."
- John Kenneth Galbrath
"Right after the Civil War there was considerable talk about reviving Lincoln's brief experiment with
the Constitutional monetary system. Had not the European money-trust intervened, it would have no doubt
become an established institution."
- W.Cleon Skousen.
"While economic textbooks claim that people and corporations are competing for markets and resources,
I claim that in reality they are competing for money - using markets and resources to do so.
Greed and fear of scarcity are being continuously created and amplified as a direct result of the kind of
money we are using. For example, we can produce more than enough food to feed everybody, and there is definitely not enough work for everybody in the world, but there is clearly not enough money to pay for it all.
In fact, the job of central banks is to create and maintain that currency scarcity.
Money is created when banks lend it into existence When a bank provides you with a $100,000 mortgage,
it creates only the principal, which you spend and which then circulates in the economy.
The bank expects you to pay back $200,000 over the next 20 years, but it doesn't create the second $100,000 - the interest. Instead, the bank sends you out into the tough world to battle against everybody else
to bring back the second $100,000."
- Bernard Lietaer, Former Central Banker
"In addition to almost unlimited usury, the bankers have another method of drawing vast amounts of wealth.
The banks are able to approve or disapprove large loans to large and successful corporations to the extent
that refusal of a loan will bring about a reduction in the selling price of the corporation's stock.
After depressing the price, the bankers' agents buy large blocks of the company's stock.
Then, if the bank suddenly approves a multi-million dollar loan to the company, the stock rises and is then sold for a profit.
In this manner, billions of dollars are made with which to buy more stock. This practice is so refined today
that the Federal Reserve Board need only announce to the newspapers an increase or decrease in their "discount rate"
to send stocks soaring or crashing at their whim. Banks collect billions in interest by loaning to Government
and the Corporations!"
- Pastor Sheldon Emry
Instances of shrinking money supply with adoption of gold and rejection of silver standard:
"I went to America in the winter of 1872-73, authorised to secure, if I could, the passage of a bill demonetising silver. It was in the interest of those I represented - the governors of the Bank of England - to have it done. By 1873, gold coins were the only form of coin money." -
Ernest Seyd, agent of Bank of England.
"The disaster of the Dark Ages was caused by decreasing money and falling prices...
Without money, civilisation could not have had a beginning,
and with a diminishing supply, it must languish and unless relieved, finally perish.
At the Christian era the metallic money of the Roman Empire amounted to $1,800 million.
By the end of the fifteenth century it had shrunk to less than $200,million.
History records no other such disastrous transition as that from the Roman Empire to the Dark Ages..."
- United States Silver Commission
"I have never seen more senators express discontent with their jobs. ...
I think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts, we have been accomplices to doing something terrible and unforgivable to this wonderful country. Deep down in our hearts, we know that we have bankrupted America and that we have given our children a legacy of bankruptcy. .. We have defrauded our country to get ourselves elected."
-John Danforth, Republican senator from Missouri, reported in the Arizona Republic of April 21, 1992
"Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders...
The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and...
manipulates the credit of the United States."
-Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-AZ)
"Your money's value is determined by a global casino of unprecedented proportions: $2 trillion are traded per day in foreign exchange markets, 100 times more than the trading volume of all the stockmarkets of the world combined. Only 2% of these foreign exchange transactions relate to the "real" economy reflecting movements of real goods and services in the world, and 98% are purely speculative. This global casino is triggering the foreign exchange crises which shook Mexico in 1994-5, Asia in 1997 and Russia in 1998. These emergencies are the dislocation symptoms of the old Industrial Age money system."
- Future of Money by Bernard Lietaer
"US foreign policy during the Cold War was not primarily about keeping the USSR out of Western Europe,
but rather about promoting the global capitalist system on a worldwide stage.
American foreign policy since 1945 has primarily been driven by the goal of
being hegemon of the world capitalist economic system.
As protector of global capitalism, the United States has replaced the United Kingdom
which played this role for more than a century before World War II.
Although the 1947-91 Cold War presented an easy-to-understand threat to this objective,
US diplomacy in these years was not primarily about keeping the USSR out of Western Europe
(the usual explanation for containment), but rather about projecting its own power, globally.
It was not about making the world safe for democracy, but about being the leader of the capitalist world,
upholder of the international economic system."
- Michael Sullivan
"Federal Reserve is not Federal and it has doubtful reserves.
The name is an open deception designed to give this private bank the appearance that it is operating
in the public's interest, when in fact it is run solely to gain private profit for its select stock holders.
It came into being as the result of one of the slickest moves in financial history.
On 23rd December 1913 the house of representatives had past the Federal Reserve Act,
but it was still having difficulty getting it out of the senate.
Most members of congress had gone home for the holidays,
but unfortunately the senate had not adjourned sene die (without day) so they were technically still in session.
There were only three members still present.
On a unanimous consent voice vote the 1913 Federal Reserve Act was passed.
No objection was made, possibly because there was no one there to object."
from Who owns the FED
"All the ingredients for ending poverty of a person always comes neatly packaged with the person himself.
A human being is born in this world fully equipped not only to take care of himself
(which all other life-forms can do too), but also to contribute in enlarging the well-being of the world as a whole.
Poverty is not created by the poor people. So we shouldn't give them an accusing look. They are the victims.
Poverty has been created by the economic and social system that we have designed for the world.
It is the institutions that we have built, and feel so proud of, which created poverty.
It is the concepts we developed to understand the reality around us, made us see things wrongly!
It is the failure at the top - rather than lack of capability at the bottom - which is the root cause of poverty.
Concepts, institutions, and analytical frame conditions which created poverty, cannot end poverty.
If we can intelligently re-work the frame conditions, poverty will be gone, never to come back again....
Try to imagine how the economists would have built their theory if they had started out with an axiom
that all men and women are created equal, that each of them is endowed with unlimited creativity,
and each of them is a potential entrepreneur. In some important ways our designing of the theoretical framework of
economics or the misrepresentation of it is responsible for perpetuating poverty."
- Commonwealth Lecture 2003 by Professor M.Yunus, Creator of Grameen Bank, Nobel Peace Prize winner 2006
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Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal
-- that there is no human relation between master and slave." - Leo Tolstoy
"All of the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arises,
not from the defects of the Constitution or Confederation,
not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation." -- John Adams, Founding Father
"History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit,
and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance."
- President James Madison
"You are a den of vipers and thieves and I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.
If Congress has the right to issue paper money, it was given them to be used by themselves,
and not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.." -- Andrew Jackson's address to Congress 1829
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies." - Thomas Jefferson.
"I have two great enemies, the southern army in front of me and the financial institutions, in the rear.
Of the two, the one in the rear is the greatest enemy.....
I see in the future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.
As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow,
and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of the war."
- Abraham Lincoln
"I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our constitution - taking from the federal government their power of borrowing." Thomas Jefferson, 1798
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency,
first by inflation then by deflation, the banks and the corporations will grow up around them,
will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent
their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people,
to whom it properly belongs." -Thomas Jefferson, The Debate Over The Recharter Of The Bank Bill, (1809).
This prophesy has come true.
"In the Colonies, we issue our own paper money. It is called 'Colonial Scrip.'
We issue it in proper proportion to make the goods and pass easily from the producers to the consumers.
In this manner, creating ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power and we have no interest to pay to no one. In this manner, by creating ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power, and we have no interest to pay, to anyone.
You see, a legitimate government can both spend and lend money into circulation,
while banks can only lend significant amounts of their promissory bank notes,
for they can neither give away nor spend but a tiny fraction of the money the people need.
Thus, when your bankers here in England place money in circulation,
there is always a debt principal to be returned and usury to be paid.
The result is that you have always too little credit in circulation to give the workers full employment.
You do not have too many workers, you have too little money in circulation, and that which circulates,
all bears the endless burden of unpayable debt and usury." - Benjamin Franklin Autobiography
"If this mischievous financial policy, which has its origin in North America,
shall become endurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost.
It will pay off debts and be without debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce.
It will become prosperous without precedent in the history of the world. The brains, and wealth of all countries
will go to North America. That country must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe."
- Hazard Circular - London Times 1865
"The government should create, issue and circulate all the currency and credit needed to satisfy
the spending power of the government and the buying power of consumers.....
The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of Government,
but it is the Government's greatest creative opportunity. By the adoption of these principles,
the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts and exchanges. The financing of all public enterprises, the maintenance of stable government and ordered progress, and the conduct of the Treasury will become matters of practical administration.
The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own government.
Money will cease to be the master and become the servant of humanity.
Democracy will rise superior to the money power."
-Lincoln Abraham Senate document 23, Page 91. 1865
"The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War
by the high financial powers of Europe. These bankers were afraid that the US, if they remained as one block, and as one nation, would attain economic and financial independence, which would upset their financial domination over the world." - Otto von Bismark, Chancellor of Germany 1876
"Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce."
- President James A. Garfield (1831-1881)
"The earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race."
As the land gets cultivated, "it is the value of the improvement, only, and not the earth itself,
that is in individual property. Every proprietor, therefore, of cultivated lands, owes to the community a ground-rent.. to every person, rich or poor...because it is in lieu of the natural inheritance, which, as a right, belongs to every man, over and above the property he may have created, or inherited from those who did"
- Thomas Paine 1796, p. 611; 612-613
"When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes... Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte, 1815
"If our nation can issue a dollar bond, it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good,
makes the bill good, also. The difference between the bond and the bill is the bond lets money brokers
collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%, whereas the currency pays nobody but those
who contribute directly in some useful way. It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30 million in bonds
and not $30 million in currency. Both are promises to pay, but one promise fattens the usurers and the other helps
the people. " - Thomas Edison, The New York Times, December 6, 1921
"The Central Banks (which charge interest to governments for the money they produce from out of nothing,
with no labour or wealth involved) have secured these loans against your future taxes. Without even asking you, a substantial part of your future worth has been put up as collateral.
What Central Banks do in a big way with countries, your local bank will replicate on organisations and individuals, using the same slight of hand to produce the funds they lend out of thin air."
- Alternative Trading Network article
"Whosoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...
And when you realise that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate."
- James Garfield (assassinated within weeks of release of this statement during first year of his Presidency in 1881)
"Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history" - Karl Marx (Communist Manifesto)
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws." - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, 1790
"Those few who can understand the system (check book money and credit) will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on it favors, that there will be little opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear it burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests."
- The Rothschild Brothers of London
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft
from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
It is spending the sweat of it laborers, the genius of its scientists and the hopes of its children"
— President Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Since 1940, Washington has spent the unimaginable sum of $20 trillion ($20,000,000,000,000!) on the military
--enough money to have provided for adequate nutrition, clean water, electrification, housing, literacy,
and basic health care for the world's entire population.
In the next four years alone an additional $1.2 trillion will go down the military rathole.
Today the U.S. military budget is bigger than that of the rest of the United Nations Security Council members combined.
This bloated military establishment exists to protect and serve U.S. capital--not only to extend and maintain
its domination in what used to be called the Third World, the oppressed countries, but also vis-a-vis its imperialist allies and rivals."
- Richard Becker
"The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom.
There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt modern civilization."
- Otto von Bismarck, German Chancellor (1815-1898), after Lincoln assassination.
"Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin.
The Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits,
and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again.
However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear,
and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in.
But if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery,
let them continue to create deposits."
- Sir Josiah Stamp, President of the Bank of England in the 1920's, the second richest man in Britain
"Because of 'fractional' reserve system, banks, as a whole, can expand our money supply several times,
by making loans and investments." "Commercial banks create checkbook money whenever they grant a loan, simply by adding new deposit dollars in accounts on their books in exchange for a borrower's IOU."
- Federal Reserve Bank, New York
"The actual process of money creation takes place in commercial banks.
As noted earlier, demand liabilities of commercial banks are money..
"Confidence in these forms of money also seems to be tied in some way
to the fact that assets exist on the books of the government and the banks
equal to the amount of money outstanding, even though most of the assets themselves
are no more than pieces of paper--.",
P.3.
"Commercial banks create checkbook money whenever they grant a loan,
simply by adding new deposit dollars in accounts on their books in exchange for a borrower's IOU.",
p. 19.
"The 12 regional reserve banks aren't government institutions,
but corporations nominally 'owned' by member commercial banks.",
p. 27.- Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
"The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity
is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it (p15).
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled."
- John Kenneth Galbraith, Money: Whence it came, where it went - 1975, p29.
"The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing."
- William Paterson (founder of Bank of England 1694)
"The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing.
The process is, perhaps, the most, astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented.
Banks can in fact inflate, mint, and un-mint the modern ledger-entry currency".
Major L. L. B. Angus
"Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment, out of nothing."
- Ralph M. Hawtery (Former Secretary of the British Treasury)
"Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal
-- that there is no human relation between master and slave."
- Leo Tolstoy
"There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates,
to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act.
In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so.
I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for 20 years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret record."
- Carroll Quigley, Georgetown University professor (deceased),
in Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time, 1966, p.950
"The greatest enemy of mankind is his ignorance of the inherent money power in all of us.
When the realization of this comes to man, he will like Samson, push down the walls of his prison."
- E.C. Riegel
"In numerous years following the war, the Federal Government ran a heavy surplus.
It could not (however) pay off its debt, retire its securities, because to do so
meant there would be no bonds to back the national bank notes.
To pay off the debt was to destroy the money supply."
- John Kenneth Galbrath
"Right after the Civil War there was considerable talk about reviving Lincoln's brief experiment with
the Constitutional monetary system. Had not the European money-trust intervened, it would have no doubt
become an established institution."
- W.Cleon Skousen.
"While economic textbooks claim that people and corporations are competing for markets and resources,
I claim that in reality they are competing for money - using markets and resources to do so.
Greed and fear of scarcity are being continuously created and amplified as a direct result of the kind of
money we are using. For example, we can produce more than enough food to feed everybody, and there is definitely not enough work for everybody in the world, but there is clearly not enough money to pay for it all.
In fact, the job of central banks is to create and maintain that currency scarcity.
Money is created when banks lend it into existence When a bank provides you with a $100,000 mortgage,
it creates only the principal, which you spend and which then circulates in the economy.
The bank expects you to pay back $200,000 over the next 20 years, but it doesn't create the second $100,000 - the interest. Instead, the bank sends you out into the tough world to battle against everybody else
to bring back the second $100,000."
- Bernard Lietaer, Former Central Banker
"In addition to almost unlimited usury, the bankers have another method of drawing vast amounts of wealth.
The banks are able to approve or disapprove large loans to large and successful corporations to the extent
that refusal of a loan will bring about a reduction in the selling price of the corporation's stock.
After depressing the price, the bankers' agents buy large blocks of the company's stock.
Then, if the bank suddenly approves a multi-million dollar loan to the company, the stock rises and is then sold for a profit.
In this manner, billions of dollars are made with which to buy more stock. This practice is so refined today
that the Federal Reserve Board need only announce to the newspapers an increase or decrease in their "discount rate"
to send stocks soaring or crashing at their whim. Banks collect billions in interest by loaning to Government
and the Corporations!"
- Pastor Sheldon Emry
Instances of shrinking money supply with adoption of gold and rejection of silver standard:
"I went to America in the winter of 1872-73, authorised to secure, if I could, the passage of a bill demonetising silver. It was in the interest of those I represented - the governors of the Bank of England - to have it done. By 1873, gold coins were the only form of coin money." -
Ernest Seyd, agent of Bank of England.
"The disaster of the Dark Ages was caused by decreasing money and falling prices...
Without money, civilisation could not have had a beginning,
and with a diminishing supply, it must languish and unless relieved, finally perish.
At the Christian era the metallic money of the Roman Empire amounted to $1,800 million.
By the end of the fifteenth century it had shrunk to less than $200,million.
History records no other such disastrous transition as that from the Roman Empire to the Dark Ages..."
- United States Silver Commission
"I have never seen more senators express discontent with their jobs. ...
I think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts, we have been accomplices to doing something terrible and unforgivable to this wonderful country. Deep down in our hearts, we know that we have bankrupted America and that we have given our children a legacy of bankruptcy. .. We have defrauded our country to get ourselves elected."
-John Danforth, Republican senator from Missouri, reported in the Arizona Republic of April 21, 1992
"Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders...
The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and...
manipulates the credit of the United States."
-Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-AZ)
"Your money's value is determined by a global casino of unprecedented proportions: $2 trillion are traded per day in foreign exchange markets, 100 times more than the trading volume of all the stockmarkets of the world combined. Only 2% of these foreign exchange transactions relate to the "real" economy reflecting movements of real goods and services in the world, and 98% are purely speculative. This global casino is triggering the foreign exchange crises which shook Mexico in 1994-5, Asia in 1997 and Russia in 1998. These emergencies are the dislocation symptoms of the old Industrial Age money system."
- Future of Money by Bernard Lietaer
"US foreign policy during the Cold War was not primarily about keeping the USSR out of Western Europe,
but rather about promoting the global capitalist system on a worldwide stage.
American foreign policy since 1945 has primarily been driven by the goal of
being hegemon of the world capitalist economic system.
As protector of global capitalism, the United States has replaced the United Kingdom
which played this role for more than a century before World War II.
Although the 1947-91 Cold War presented an easy-to-understand threat to this objective,
US diplomacy in these years was not primarily about keeping the USSR out of Western Europe
(the usual explanation for containment), but rather about projecting its own power, globally.
It was not about making the world safe for democracy, but about being the leader of the capitalist world,
upholder of the international economic system."
- Michael Sullivan
"Federal Reserve is not Federal and it has doubtful reserves.
The name is an open deception designed to give this private bank the appearance that it is operating
in the public's interest, when in fact it is run solely to gain private profit for its select stock holders.
It came into being as the result of one of the slickest moves in financial history.
On 23rd December 1913 the house of representatives had past the Federal Reserve Act,
but it was still having difficulty getting it out of the senate.
Most members of congress had gone home for the holidays,
but unfortunately the senate had not adjourned sene die (without day) so they were technically still in session.
There were only three members still present.
On a unanimous consent voice vote the 1913 Federal Reserve Act was passed.
No objection was made, possibly because there was no one there to object."
from Who owns the FED
"All the ingredients for ending poverty of a person always comes neatly packaged with the person himself.
A human being is born in this world fully equipped not only to take care of himself
(which all other life-forms can do too), but also to contribute in enlarging the well-being of the world as a whole.
Poverty is not created by the poor people. So we shouldn't give them an accusing look. They are the victims.
Poverty has been created by the economic and social system that we have designed for the world.
It is the institutions that we have built, and feel so proud of, which created poverty.
It is the concepts we developed to understand the reality around us, made us see things wrongly!
It is the failure at the top - rather than lack of capability at the bottom - which is the root cause of poverty.
Concepts, institutions, and analytical frame conditions which created poverty, cannot end poverty.
If we can intelligently re-work the frame conditions, poverty will be gone, never to come back again....
Try to imagine how the economists would have built their theory if they had started out with an axiom
that all men and women are created equal, that each of them is endowed with unlimited creativity,
and each of them is a potential entrepreneur. In some important ways our designing of the theoretical framework of
economics or the misrepresentation of it is responsible for perpetuating poverty."
- Commonwealth Lecture 2003 by Professor M.Yunus, Creator of Grameen Bank, Nobel Peace Prize winner 2006
============================
Transforming Money by Susmita Barua
============================
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IMPORTANT LESSON: "MONEY" MEANS WARNING!!!
TMNP
Thursday, February 28, 2008
34th POST
Feb. 29, 2008
34th Post!
33 degree? NO, 34 degree!!! har!
=========================================
Typed Wednesday FEB06
Sent Friday FEB29 (3 WeEKS LATE!)
Just finished eating lunch - using as sawsawan "Sultan Usman's Toyo"
I'm more inclined to believe (& this is what I call my variant to the
Sultan Usman Thesis [on Toyo production): that instead of
ground pork, anti-Muslim manufacturers add wine instead.
Maybe sioktong? That's why it has a reddish tinge...
My liking for soy sauce has definitely lessened...
I'll try KIKKOMMAN (not a paid ad)
Today: Chinese New Year & Ash Wednesday
Q: How will a Chinese Catholic combine the two???
"Mestizo religions": half-Muslim-half-Christian, half-Buddhist-half-Christian
half-Marxist-half-Catholic, half-Marxist-half-Mulsim, etc etc etc
Which half is the stronger/deciding one?
American primary elections... Issue of RACE?
Wordplay: Barack (rhmyes with black) Obama (oBama Sinladin!!!)
If I remember correctly I heard in one news that Hispanics supported Clinton
over Obama? WASPs (White Anglo Saxon Protestants) & Catholic
Hispanics united by skin color against blacks/negroes? How about Asian-
Americans? Remember the Black vs Korean riots in California in the past?
How about Chinese-Americans, Japanese-Americans, Fil-Americans, Arab-Americans
Turkish Americans, Iranian-Americans, etc etc etc Whom will they vote for???
How will RELIGION & RACE (Ethnicity) determine the outcome?
RACE - brings to my mind the well-known black activist MALCOLM X who was a
Muslim convert. Read Malcolm X's Autobiography (as told to Alex Haley).
I consider this book a MUST reading for all non-whites!
MALCOLM X
He was actually 1/4 WHITE! (His maternal(?) grandmother was raped by a white man.)
Extreme white supremacists might claim that's why he was still different - very intelligent.
He was a hustler ("astig") in the toughest area in Chicage & New York City!
Kumbaga hustler ng Tondo, Divisoria at Quiapo...
I doubt if Asians, Arabs or other non-whites have an equivalent folk-hero to match him!
WALA yatang pantapat kay Malcolm X ang ibang de-kulay na lahi.
X was essentially a self-taught deep thinker. Reading deep into the human
condition not only thru books but via painful experience. Note: he combined book
knowledge with actual brutal real life involvement in the streetlife (book & street smart-
- a rare combination! He was jailed for minor crimes - JAIL was his school...
X even has a DEVASTATINGLY INSIGHTFUL TIP for males regarding GIRLS (women or females)!
Ang galing ng insight regarding the female species...
Just READ THE BOOK - available as pocket book. Dapat yata namakyaw aku nito para pambenta!
=====================
QUOTES FROM MALCOLM X
=====================
"THE WHITE MAN IS THE DEVIL."
[As attested to by HISTORY, take note of white man's
relationship with other races of man - what is the common denominator?
Spaniards & Portuguese in Asia, Africa & South America,
British, French, Dutch in Asia, Africa & North America etc etc]
"If you are not ready to DIE for it,
put the word 'FREEDOM' out of your vocabulary."
"I am not educated, nor am I an expert in any particular field...
But I am sincere and my sincerity is my credential."
"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything."
"We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us."
"A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent,
takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own
selfhood, it can never fulfill itself."
"The CHRISTIAN CHURcH became infected with RACISM when it entered WHITE Europe."
"Only one religion - ISLAM - had the power to stand & fight
the WHITE MAN's CHRISTIANITY for a thousand years!
Only ISLAM could keep WHITE CHRISTIANITY at bay.
The Africans are returning to Islam and other indigenous religions.
The Asians ate returning to being Hindus, Buddhists and Muslims."
"Here lies a YM, killed by a BM, fighting for the WM, who killed all the RM."
[MY COMMENT: X forgot the CM!!!]
"The Zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no
intelligent or legal basis in history."
=====================================================================================
Of course, Malcolm X liked one form of integration: He loved black coffee with white cream HAR HAR HAR! (coffee-KOFI Annan?)
simple lang mag-isip sina BUSH, Cheney et al...
Isa sa mga FUNDAMENTAL BASIS (the other is ECONOMIX/MATERIAL) ng decision-making ni MR. WHITEY eh ang KULAY LANG NG BALAT... Pag-aralan ninyo ang kasaysayan ng relasyon
ng WM vis-a-vis the BM, YM, RM & CM [Last eh "Chocolate Man" - kasi gusto nilang
i-simplify ang issue BM = Black & Brown man are the same! Notice they insist in programming
via media & entertainment to make "Filipinos identify with half-black Fil-Americans"!!!]
Their BIG PROBLEM: How about INDO-ARYANS like Persians, Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis???!!! NOT TO MENTION CENTRAL ASIANS who look white-brown-yellow!
And most "Arabs" are whiter than some "Americans"!!! And what about the Turks??!!
BLACK : BROWN : RED : YELLOW : WHITE - The DIVIDED COLORS OF THE RACIAL SPECTRUM
More on RACE & RACISM later...
MY POSITION: RACIAL PURITY YES... RACIAL SUPERIORITY NO...
A pure ink-black African from the remote interior of the black continent is "racially superior"
to a half-blonde-Dutch-Jewish-American-masquerading/pretending-as-a-Polish-German-half-Filipino!!!
I AM not even PURE MALAY since I have a "tinge of Spanish & Chinese bloods"!!!
If you'll practice RACISM make sure you REALLY understand PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY!!!
===========================================
THE ANTIDOTE TO RACISM IS COUNTER-RACISM!!!
===========================================
PERSONALITIES who have influenced MY thinking:
FISCHER, CAMUS, BONIFACIO, SAKAY, MALCOLM X... Sino pa bang tatalakayin ko?...
I don't mention RIZAL ("Pride of Malay Race") & MUHAMMAD (Prophet of ISLAAM)
pero AXIOMATIC na ito eh...
ITUTULOY as in KOMIX...
PAHABOL:
Regarding RACE & AMERICA: DALAWA lang talaga ang naging GUIDE ko:
1) Rizal's one-sentence comment on America after visiting the place &
2) the HISTORY of the RED SKINS (=Native Americans) vis-a-vis PALEFACE in THEIR OWN CONTINENT...
Mr. Whitey should be aware that colored peoples outnumber his race by tremendous odds...
For as long as the WHITE MAN is ruling the world, colored peoples have nothing new to expect... no real CHANGE...
NAKA-LIBRE NA NAMAN ANG READER SA TUITION FEE...
34th Post!
33 degree? NO, 34 degree!!! har!
=========================================
Typed Wednesday FEB06
Sent Friday FEB29 (3 WeEKS LATE!)
Just finished eating lunch - using as sawsawan "Sultan Usman's Toyo"
I'm more inclined to believe (& this is what I call my variant to the
Sultan Usman Thesis [on Toyo production): that instead of
ground pork, anti-Muslim manufacturers add wine instead.
Maybe sioktong? That's why it has a reddish tinge...
My liking for soy sauce has definitely lessened...
I'll try KIKKOMMAN (not a paid ad)
Today: Chinese New Year & Ash Wednesday
Q: How will a Chinese Catholic combine the two???
"Mestizo religions": half-Muslim-half-Christian, half-Buddhist-half-Christian
half-Marxist-half-Catholic, half-Marxist-half-Mulsim, etc etc etc
Which half is the stronger/deciding one?
American primary elections... Issue of RACE?
Wordplay: Barack (rhmyes with black) Obama (oBama Sinladin!!!)
If I remember correctly I heard in one news that Hispanics supported Clinton
over Obama? WASPs (White Anglo Saxon Protestants) & Catholic
Hispanics united by skin color against blacks/negroes? How about Asian-
Americans? Remember the Black vs Korean riots in California in the past?
How about Chinese-Americans, Japanese-Americans, Fil-Americans, Arab-Americans
Turkish Americans, Iranian-Americans, etc etc etc Whom will they vote for???
How will RELIGION & RACE (Ethnicity) determine the outcome?
RACE - brings to my mind the well-known black activist MALCOLM X who was a
Muslim convert. Read Malcolm X's Autobiography (as told to Alex Haley).
I consider this book a MUST reading for all non-whites!
MALCOLM X
He was actually 1/4 WHITE! (His maternal(?) grandmother was raped by a white man.)
Extreme white supremacists might claim that's why he was still different - very intelligent.
He was a hustler ("astig") in the toughest area in Chicage & New York City!
Kumbaga hustler ng Tondo, Divisoria at Quiapo...
I doubt if Asians, Arabs or other non-whites have an equivalent folk-hero to match him!
WALA yatang pantapat kay Malcolm X ang ibang de-kulay na lahi.
X was essentially a self-taught deep thinker. Reading deep into the human
condition not only thru books but via painful experience. Note: he combined book
knowledge with actual brutal real life involvement in the streetlife (book & street smart-
- a rare combination! He was jailed for minor crimes - JAIL was his school...
X even has a DEVASTATINGLY INSIGHTFUL TIP for males regarding GIRLS (women or females)!
Ang galing ng insight regarding the female species...
Just READ THE BOOK - available as pocket book. Dapat yata namakyaw aku nito para pambenta!
=====================
QUOTES FROM MALCOLM X
=====================
"THE WHITE MAN IS THE DEVIL."
[As attested to by HISTORY, take note of white man's
relationship with other races of man - what is the common denominator?
Spaniards & Portuguese in Asia, Africa & South America,
British, French, Dutch in Asia, Africa & North America etc etc]
"If you are not ready to DIE for it,
put the word 'FREEDOM' out of your vocabulary."
"I am not educated, nor am I an expert in any particular field...
But I am sincere and my sincerity is my credential."
"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything."
"We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us."
"A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent,
takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own
selfhood, it can never fulfill itself."
"The CHRISTIAN CHURcH became infected with RACISM when it entered WHITE Europe."
"Only one religion - ISLAM - had the power to stand & fight
the WHITE MAN's CHRISTIANITY for a thousand years!
Only ISLAM could keep WHITE CHRISTIANITY at bay.
The Africans are returning to Islam and other indigenous religions.
The Asians ate returning to being Hindus, Buddhists and Muslims."
"Here lies a YM, killed by a BM, fighting for the WM, who killed all the RM."
[MY COMMENT: X forgot the CM!!!]
"The Zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no
intelligent or legal basis in history."
=====================================================================================
Of course, Malcolm X liked one form of integration: He loved black coffee with white cream HAR HAR HAR! (coffee-KOFI Annan?)
simple lang mag-isip sina BUSH, Cheney et al...
Isa sa mga FUNDAMENTAL BASIS (the other is ECONOMIX/MATERIAL) ng decision-making ni MR. WHITEY eh ang KULAY LANG NG BALAT... Pag-aralan ninyo ang kasaysayan ng relasyon
ng WM vis-a-vis the BM, YM, RM & CM [Last eh "Chocolate Man" - kasi gusto nilang
i-simplify ang issue BM = Black & Brown man are the same! Notice they insist in programming
via media & entertainment to make "Filipinos identify with half-black Fil-Americans"!!!]
Their BIG PROBLEM: How about INDO-ARYANS like Persians, Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis???!!! NOT TO MENTION CENTRAL ASIANS who look white-brown-yellow!
And most "Arabs" are whiter than some "Americans"!!! And what about the Turks??!!
BLACK : BROWN : RED : YELLOW : WHITE - The DIVIDED COLORS OF THE RACIAL SPECTRUM
More on RACE & RACISM later...
MY POSITION: RACIAL PURITY YES... RACIAL SUPERIORITY NO...
A pure ink-black African from the remote interior of the black continent is "racially superior"
to a half-blonde-Dutch-Jewish-American-masquerading/pretending-as-a-Polish-German-half-Filipino!!!
I AM not even PURE MALAY since I have a "tinge of Spanish & Chinese bloods"!!!
If you'll practice RACISM make sure you REALLY understand PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY!!!
===========================================
THE ANTIDOTE TO RACISM IS COUNTER-RACISM!!!
===========================================
PERSONALITIES who have influenced MY thinking:
FISCHER, CAMUS, BONIFACIO, SAKAY, MALCOLM X... Sino pa bang tatalakayin ko?...
I don't mention RIZAL ("Pride of Malay Race") & MUHAMMAD (Prophet of ISLAAM)
pero AXIOMATIC na ito eh...
ITUTULOY as in KOMIX...
PAHABOL:
Regarding RACE & AMERICA: DALAWA lang talaga ang naging GUIDE ko:
1) Rizal's one-sentence comment on America after visiting the place &
2) the HISTORY of the RED SKINS (=Native Americans) vis-a-vis PALEFACE in THEIR OWN CONTINENT...
Mr. Whitey should be aware that colored peoples outnumber his race by tremendous odds...
For as long as the WHITE MAN is ruling the world, colored peoples have nothing new to expect... no real CHANGE...
NAKA-LIBRE NA NAMAN ANG READER SA TUITION FEE...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
33rd POST
Pebrero 27, 2008
Walang pumasok sa utak ko...
Pero, I was thinking...
Naisip ko...
Walang "world-class" leader dito sa "Philippines"...
Ang mga nagpapatakbo ng mga kaganapan dito ay
mga taga-labas talaga... Utusan/Kutusan lang
nila ang mga pumapapel sa Gobyerno, sa Media, sa Taung-Bayan...
Tila nahahalata ko...
Parang ang pinag-aawayan lang talaga eh
ang tamang bahagihan ng kwarta...
Nagkagulangan lang sa hatian, nag-laban na...
Ano ba naman ang maaasahan mo
sa isang bansang ni hindi makagawa ng
sariling kutsara at tinidor?
[Ang isang malaking suliranin ng bansang ito
eh kopya ang sistemang pampulitika (gobyerno)
sa Estados Unidos na isang napakalaki at napakayamang
bansa samantalang "third-world" agricultural
level ang sistemang pang-ekonomiya...
Anong maaasahan mo sa ganyang uri ng sistema?
Ang bagsak eh agawan lang sa "crumbs"...
Ang sinumang uupong lider eh siya namang
mandaraya sa eleksyon, magnanakaw sa kaban ng bayan...
Kahit sinong i-upo o ilagay mo, ganoo't-ganun din
ang mangyayari.. Same-Same
Ang may kontrol ng mahahalagang industriya/produksyon
eh ang iilan lang na mayayaman na patuloy lang sa pag-yaman
Ganoon din sa lupain...
[Naniniwala aku na hangga't walang TUNAY na repormang panlupa
dito eh walang mangyayaring tunay na pagbabago sa lipunan...
Tutoo ba na sa Taiwan/Formosa eh binili raw noon ng gobyerno nito
ang mga malawak na lupain ng mayayaman at ipinamahagi ito?]...
Samantala, patuloy sa pagdami ang naghihirap na tau...
[Tutoo kaya yung nabasa ko na kaya "nilang" (those who rule/control)
paramihin o pakontiin ang 'middle class" at ito
ang siyang mag-sasaad ng mga kaganapan sa lipunan... sa pulitika...
Kapag pina-konti ito ang mangyayari eh
iilang ubod ng yaman ang nasa itaas ng "tatsulok" ng lipunan
at ang higit-higit sa nakararami eh "mahirap pa sa daga..."
Magbabangaan ang mga nasa ilalim at mababawasan ang kanilang dami...
So, kontrolado ang populasyon!...
Tutoo kaya ito? - na kaya "nilang" manipulahin
ang lipunan upang mabago ang katayuan ng maraming tau?...
Ayon kasi sa "grand conspiracy theories"
ang "kumokontrol sa masang pulubi" ay sila ring
"kumokontrol sa mga nasa itaas"...
Choose one & you get the other!
Wala kang kawala!
Sinong dapat talagang sisihin sa mga suliranin sa lipunan
at pamahalaan?
Sa pananaw ko
IISA lang talaga ang tunay na problema sa mundong ibabaw
==============================
ANG YAMAN AY HAWAK NG IILAN...
==============================
Ang mga kaganapan sa Kosovo, sa Burma, sa Colombia
sa Thailand... sa "Philippines"- may koneksyon ba ang mga ito?
May religious o pang-relihiyong aspeto ba
ang tinatawag nilang krisis ngayon dito?
Gov't vs Church?
Sino talaga ang nagba-banggaan?
Executive vs Legislative?
Church vs State?
Negosyante vs Gobyerno?
Negosyante laban sa Simbahan?
Gobyerno laban sa Oligarkiya
(Yung mga pamilyang ubod ng yaman)?
Gobyerno vs Masa?
Negosyante vs Masa?
Sino-sino talaga ang tunay na "involved"?...
Family feud?
East vs. West?
British vs US vs Japan vs
Vatican vs Russia vs China etc etc?
O multi-national financial groups?
Para sa akin, ang naglalaban lang talaga
eh ang mga Magnanakaw laban sa mga Sinungaling!
[Kaso mo, mag-kapatid daw itong dalawa...]
Choose one and you get the other!
At sila lang ang talagang nabibigyang puwang sa Media...
At ang naloloko (Nagpapaloko naman!)
eh ang masang tanga...]
Nasaan sa mga kaganapan...
ang mga MORO???!!!...
[Iba ang basa ko, ano?]
TMNP
Walang pumasok sa utak ko...
Pero, I was thinking...
Naisip ko...
Walang "world-class" leader dito sa "Philippines"...
Ang mga nagpapatakbo ng mga kaganapan dito ay
mga taga-labas talaga... Utusan/Kutusan lang
nila ang mga pumapapel sa Gobyerno, sa Media, sa Taung-Bayan...
Tila nahahalata ko...
Parang ang pinag-aawayan lang talaga eh
ang tamang bahagihan ng kwarta...
Nagkagulangan lang sa hatian, nag-laban na...
Ano ba naman ang maaasahan mo
sa isang bansang ni hindi makagawa ng
sariling kutsara at tinidor?
[Ang isang malaking suliranin ng bansang ito
eh kopya ang sistemang pampulitika (gobyerno)
sa Estados Unidos na isang napakalaki at napakayamang
bansa samantalang "third-world" agricultural
level ang sistemang pang-ekonomiya...
Anong maaasahan mo sa ganyang uri ng sistema?
Ang bagsak eh agawan lang sa "crumbs"...
Ang sinumang uupong lider eh siya namang
mandaraya sa eleksyon, magnanakaw sa kaban ng bayan...
Kahit sinong i-upo o ilagay mo, ganoo't-ganun din
ang mangyayari.. Same-Same
Ang may kontrol ng mahahalagang industriya/produksyon
eh ang iilan lang na mayayaman na patuloy lang sa pag-yaman
Ganoon din sa lupain...
[Naniniwala aku na hangga't walang TUNAY na repormang panlupa
dito eh walang mangyayaring tunay na pagbabago sa lipunan...
Tutoo ba na sa Taiwan/Formosa eh binili raw noon ng gobyerno nito
ang mga malawak na lupain ng mayayaman at ipinamahagi ito?]...
Samantala, patuloy sa pagdami ang naghihirap na tau...
[Tutoo kaya yung nabasa ko na kaya "nilang" (those who rule/control)
paramihin o pakontiin ang 'middle class" at ito
ang siyang mag-sasaad ng mga kaganapan sa lipunan... sa pulitika...
Kapag pina-konti ito ang mangyayari eh
iilang ubod ng yaman ang nasa itaas ng "tatsulok" ng lipunan
at ang higit-higit sa nakararami eh "mahirap pa sa daga..."
Magbabangaan ang mga nasa ilalim at mababawasan ang kanilang dami...
So, kontrolado ang populasyon!...
Tutoo kaya ito? - na kaya "nilang" manipulahin
ang lipunan upang mabago ang katayuan ng maraming tau?...
Ayon kasi sa "grand conspiracy theories"
ang "kumokontrol sa masang pulubi" ay sila ring
"kumokontrol sa mga nasa itaas"...
Choose one & you get the other!
Wala kang kawala!
Sinong dapat talagang sisihin sa mga suliranin sa lipunan
at pamahalaan?
Sa pananaw ko
IISA lang talaga ang tunay na problema sa mundong ibabaw
==============================
ANG YAMAN AY HAWAK NG IILAN...
==============================
Ang mga kaganapan sa Kosovo, sa Burma, sa Colombia
sa Thailand... sa "Philippines"- may koneksyon ba ang mga ito?
May religious o pang-relihiyong aspeto ba
ang tinatawag nilang krisis ngayon dito?
Gov't vs Church?
Sino talaga ang nagba-banggaan?
Executive vs Legislative?
Church vs State?
Negosyante vs Gobyerno?
Negosyante laban sa Simbahan?
Gobyerno laban sa Oligarkiya
(Yung mga pamilyang ubod ng yaman)?
Gobyerno vs Masa?
Negosyante vs Masa?
Sino-sino talaga ang tunay na "involved"?...
Family feud?
East vs. West?
British vs US vs Japan vs
Vatican vs Russia vs China etc etc?
O multi-national financial groups?
Para sa akin, ang naglalaban lang talaga
eh ang mga Magnanakaw laban sa mga Sinungaling!
[Kaso mo, mag-kapatid daw itong dalawa...]
Choose one and you get the other!
At sila lang ang talagang nabibigyang puwang sa Media...
At ang naloloko (Nagpapaloko naman!)
eh ang masang tanga...]
Nasaan sa mga kaganapan...
ang mga MORO???!!!...
[Iba ang basa ko, ano?]
TMNP
32nd POST
February 27, 2008
Manila
Just created a new, second blog to my
http://the-island-of-dr-moro.blogspot.com
Just REMOVE the DASH SIGN ("-"
===========================
http://theislandofdrmoro.blogspot.com
===========================
Read my sanaysay in Tagalog
"KUNG PAANO NAWALA SA MAPA ANG SULTANATO NF SULU
- ISANG KONSPIRATORYAL NA PANANAW"
TMNP
Manila
Just created a new, second blog to my
http://the-island-of-dr-moro.blogspot.com
Just REMOVE the DASH SIGN ("-"
===========================
http://theislandofdrmoro.blogspot.com
===========================
Read my sanaysay in Tagalog
"KUNG PAANO NAWALA SA MAPA ANG SULTANATO NF SULU
- ISANG KONSPIRATORYAL NA PANANAW"
TMNP
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