What is the Perk?

 Earlier today I learnt that the Government wants to issue ID cards to UK citizens. They think it will scare off illegal migration. I find that very funny because other European Nations have ID cards and it has no effect. 

I already have ID cards,  two rail cards and a driving license. They all come with perks. Even store loyalty cards come with perks. If I get an ID card I expect it to come with a perk. My drivers license lets me operate vehicles, my rail cards give me discounts on train tickets, my store loyalty cards give me better deals on goods. My question is what is the perk? Is it just a key to get a job? Would there be more, would I get an advantage of some sort. Would I only be motivated to get an ID card if I wanted a new job? 

Let's see what happens.  

Alien Hospitality

I thought to myself, if an alien civilization visited earth and studied us they would come to the conclusion we were recently an endangered species. They would think humans came very close to extinction about 40 or 50 thousand years ago. They would say there is a bottle neck in DNA variation between each person. Every human's DNA differs by one tenth of one percent. We are all 99.9 percent identical. There isn't even half of 1 percent difference between us. That proves there was recently only a few hundred people on earth and now there is 7 billion of us. If you compared two sheep, each sheep would have nearly a whole percent difference but humans are very similar although we all look different. 

I was looking at sofas on Argos, I thought to myself if I sorted the list by customer rating, I would trust the top portion of the list because most people thought highly of it. I wouldn't need to try it out because the stats on their own would be reliable enough. When hundreds of people say it is very comfortable to sit on, I could trust them, especially when the other sofas get some criticism. 

The idea of getting a new sofa isn't to show off, it would be for hosting guests. I would love people that visit my home to feel very comfortable and relaxed. I would sit them on community approved sofas and give them tea or coffee with syrup and even sugar free options. They would put their feet up and sip barista coffee and watch TV. I would have a dehumidifier making the air perfect. Perhaps I would have air conditioning set to the perfect temperature and the perfect humidity level. 

I was thinking perhaps even aliens from another civilization in space would feel very relaxed if they visited my home. Knowing my luck, they would find coffee poisonous or something like that. I would have to be careful. They could use their triquarter thingies  to check if it is safe. I could tell them jokes about my triquarter, I would say it has security feature, it has Motorola written on it so the pick pockets give it back to you. Even humans don't laugh at my jokes so I won't expect anything. 

If We Could See Neptune

I was wondering if history would be different if humans could see Neptune. We can only see 7 planets with our eyes, you need a telescope to see Neptune because it is in a region of deep space that makes planets to faint to see, it is too far away. I think they considered planets to be stars that move to different places. They thought planets are stars that don't stay put. 

A week lasts for 7 days, so we have divided up the year into 52 weeks. Now we have a Sabbath, one day in the week where we rest, most Christians have their Sabbath  on Sunday and Jews on Saturday. We work hard for 6 days and rest for 1. Most people in these times work for 5 days and rest for 2. Thank God for the Sabbath, resting every week. 

Donald Trump claimed pain killers taken during pregnancy causes autism, I don't think so. I think autism is increasing because we are better at diagnosing the condition. The amount of autism is always the same. 

Engraving bullets used to assassin people is a thing now. They won't be able to read it though. 🙄

Strangely relaxing Again

I was looking at some simulation videos of conflicts between different beings on YouTube. I become like a little child, just curious to see what will happen. 

Here is an example Spartans Against Evey Unit

I like watching computer simulations of impossible confrontations, not because I like violence but because I want to see what will happen. There are so many of them out there. They are an endless river of curiosity. 

I felt curious about what Jesus was doing during the 3 days his body was dead from crucifixion.. Some people think he went  to sheol to gather the souls that had faith in him before his mission to take them to paradise. Others think he went to satan to tell him he no longer has authority over mankind's future. He went to crush the snakes head. I'm guessing at least the last day he was rebuilding his body. I guess there is only one way to know, it would be to ask him.

Strangely Relaxing

I found a video of 100 computer generated archers shooting lots of different opponents. It was strangely relaxing; I think I know why. The reason is because I'm curious about what will happen next and discard my ego and worries for a short time. While the video is playing, I stop thinking and become like a little child. 

This is the video I'm talking about Archers Video

Reading something can have the same effect. While you're reading, you're not really thinking about what is happening or things you can't control, you just curious about what will happen on the next paragraph. 

Being like a child is the best thing in the world, your not thinking about yourself or your status, you're not even thinking about your problems, your just thinking about the moment. 

Hand Crush

I remember in the movie superman 2, superman was aware that he needed go away from the cities and wait for the 3 super villains to come to his base because they were causing too much damage. He switched the crystal over that makes super heroes crippled like a human and tricked them into activating it and turning themselves into weak humans. 

I was wondering if he crushed general zod's hand because he was trying to crush his. He didn't know he had lost his super human state. He held superman's hand because he kneeled down before him to surprise him. 

I was wondering if general zod tried to crush superman's hand before super man crushed his. 

Charlie Kirk Assassinated

I learnt last night at about 2am that Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a lone sniper purched on a rooftop. I felt a deep sadness for his death, not just because I admired him but because he was young and had two young children that will now have to grow up without their father. I feel pity for his family's loss. 

I will now do what he would have wanted me to do, I will share the good news about Jesus Christ our lord and saviour.  I will write about Jesus on my blogs and talk to people about Jesus. This is my response to his death, I will tell everyone about the love and peace of Jesus Christ, everyone. Even though there are many flaws in my character. It's not about me, it is about Jesus (Yeshua) . Forget about me, or wicked people, turn to Jesus, he is full of love and wants you to have a light plough on your shoulders. 

Skip Away

I became aware that I'm over weight because I'm 1.8 meters tall (5 ft 10) and I weigh 110kg ( 242 pounds). The ideal weight for my height should be around 80kg. I'm carrying an extra 30 kilograms of weight around with me. I picked up a sack of rice that weighs 20kg and I thought to myself that I would be tired if I carried that around all day. But I'm carrying 30 unnecessary kilograms already. 

Last week I bought a skipping rope for £4. I thought, if I can get my weight down just by skipping then I would save money because a decent treadmill cost £200 and gym membership is usually £20 to £30 per month. It is very nice skipping rope, it has a polymer cord, hinged joint between the rope and handles, the handles are padded foam. If I shopped around a bit online I could probably get a very good skipping rope for £2. 

The goal now would be to skip for 5 minutes in the morning and 5 minutes in the evening; two sets of 5 minutes per day. Then I would increase the five minutes to 10 minutes. Eventually I want to go outside once a day and skip continuously for 30 minutes as fast as possible. 

My extra weight is making my life more difficult and short. I get tired more than when I weighed 90kg in my 30s. When my weight is 90kg, I can buy weights to increase my muscles. I also need to stop eating so much bread. Most the food I eat every day is bread. 

Epstein Files

Jeffrey Epstein was a famous American financier that was sent to prison for sex crimes; he exploited young under age girls for sex. 

My view is, if you knew him and you went to his private island, it doesn't mean you're part of his crimes. People approached him because they were paying him to improve their assets and didn't know about his crimes.  

They approached him because of his expertise and his extensive people network. He set himself up as a supreme middle man. Even world leaders of nations that were at loggerheads would skip over the UN and approach him to meet up on his island. I wouldn't be surprised if he managed to talk leaders out of going to war. 

I think involvement in his crimes would depend on when his cronies burnt their bridges. Did they cut him off when he was first exposed as a sex offender? Perhaps others cut off ties with him when he went to prison a second time. Perhaps there were a few on his premises after he committed suicide in jail, they would be part of his inner circle. 

All I know is he had supreme people skills and was a gifted financier with a dark side. 

Moving the Bar

I bought a skipping rope the other day, I thought the most important exercise is high speed arobic. Your heart needs to speed up a bit to improve your health. I look out for very cheap arobic exercise equipment that can be left outside in your back yard. 

Exercising is very much like having a hobby, you want to see how far you can push the bar, you want to see how much you can improve what you are doing.  In exercise you want to strengthen your body. In my cartoon Blog, I want my cartoons sketches to satisfy my own standards, they don't at the moment but they're improving but I wouldn't buy it if it was printed. That's ok, that's what it's about; you want to see how much progress you can make. This is my cartoon strip blog https://jokejohn.blogspot.com/. 

I look for things to improve my health and I try to improve my cartoon sketches until Jesus comes back or I pass away. 

Cabinet Reshuffle

 Recently David Lammy became the new deputy prime minister, this also means someone else had to move to his old position, we call that a cabinet reshuffle  because cabinet ministers are moved around to different roles. David Lammy took Angela Rayner's job because one of her properties was owned by a trust and that meant she paid less property tax than a regular home owner, so the public felt like they were being blind sided. If a trust or a bank owns a property, they pay less property tax because the law protects banking assets in this county, the trouble is individuals can set up a trust or a small private bank and use it to own property so they would be exploiting a tax loophole. If a minister uses tax loopholes, it is unacceptable because the public community is looking up to them for help and they're helping themselves. I'm not saying she is a crook though, I think accountants can sometimes tell people to do things like that. When you're working in the leadership cabinet, journalists and opposition leaders will scrutinise everything you do and your job is temporary. 

I only think about it when it happens or when it's on the news. Otherwise I just explore my imagination. I imagine owning a 12'' gauge train set, one you can ride on that is tucked away inside a large vent space in your home. No one would see it unless they opened a cupboard with no back panel, it would be a doorway to a mini train station. You could dress up all the fittings on the station and even build the train yourself out of large boxes. The wheels of the tiny train would just be skateboard wheels that sit downwards and sideways on the rails; the rails would just be sheet metal bent into a rectangle shape. The train itself would move by being dragged by electromagnets that are on the floor. The train itself would look like boxes with hinges holding them together but as you modify it, it looks more and more like a train. You cut out holes in the large boxes and put see-through plastic for the windows. You add stickers and paint, things like that. You use a 3D printer to print out seats and housing panels for the progress displays. Finally you make the doors because you're not content with a cavity on the side to get in. The vent would also take away the stale damp air and leave cool fresh dry air. 

Backless Cupboard Fishless Aquarium

It is getting darker and cloudy these days, days are noticeably shorter. I can sense the days are getting shorter because the sun dips below the horizon before 8. Here in Britain the skies can be grey for days at a time, it feels so grim, the summer is fading away for another 9 months. In virtual reality the weather is always nice unless you don't want it to be.  The talk on everyone's lips is the strange comet, i3-atlas. Some people think it is slowing down or changing speed like a space ship, others are sceptical and think it's just a comet flung out from another star system. Other people think it is heading for earth.

When the news is grim, when the skies are grim and filled with grey, what can you do? Get some comfort from your imagination. I imagined winning the lottery and getting planning permission to build my house on an abandoned industrial site. The house would have extra large vents, the vents would be used to contain a small gauge railway set. 

There would be cupboards in the house with nothing in them. You open the cupboard and there is no back-panel, just an opening to a mini train station. There would be small trains with 4 cars, each car is just big enough for one person to sit in it. Each train car would be a custom made box with an array of skateboard wheels screwed to it but it would be dressed up like a train. At the flick of a switch lights would turn on and the miniature metro rail system turns into a fishless aquarium; there would be screens inside little glass boxes showing fish swimming around but there would be no fish in them. It would be a fake aquarium. It looks real but there is no water and no fish.

The large vents would also be very good at taking stale air out of the rooms and filling the rooms with fresh air. A house with extra large vents to facilitate hobbies and make the air fresh. Imagination just for comfort. Sometimes imagination isn't just used to create things it is to settle the mind. 

What August 2025 Means to Me

 In august 2025 I was drawn to a cosmic mystery that came with conspiracy theories. A very fast moving comet was discovered in deep space by the NASA Atlas telescope. They called it i3-Atlas; the name sounds like a new processor chip, but it's a comet. They think the object came from another solar system because it is travelling too fast to keep a place here. They don't know what star system it came from or what it is made of. They think it came from a star that is closer to the centre of the milky way galaxy than ours and it seems to be a comet. They think it went close to a large object like a planet and was flung out of its solar system by the sling shot effect; giant planets sometimes cause smaller objects like asteroids and comets to be flung away from the star system where they formed. 

Some people on the internet think that i3-atlas is actually a space ship from an alien civilisation heading for earth, and the government are trying to cover it up because they think it will cause a panic. I will go with NASA's verdict, a large comet was flung out of a star system and drifted in interstellar space and is now passing through our own solar system. It curved towards our solar system because of the sun's gravity but it is going too fast to stay put and will pass through our solar system and continue to head away from the centre of our galaxy for eternity. 

For me the big thing is getting to know the world of virtual reality. I purchased a meta quest vr headset shortly after my birthday in the middle of summer. It is a notch on the sci-Fi portion of my bucket list. 

Talking with machines, check.

Exploring virtual reality, check. 

Conversing in real time with artificial intelligence, check.

Wearing a flying coat, not yet. 

Flying cars, not yet.

 You get the idea. 

There are countless worlds out there to explore. countless stories and games to try. Playing golf in virtual reality or visiting a pinball arcade; there is something for every type of leisure out there in the meta cloud. The thing that is missing is something to let you walk with your legs. You can step around in a virtual reality boundary but you can't really walk naturally. You have to use your controller sticks to walk in virtual reality. Walking without moving or stepping can make you dizzy.