What blogging means to me

Blogging is my favourite hobby. It is possible that people will think the wrong thing about it. They may think, who are you to write a blog? You're just an ordinary working man.

Well

Those people are right ,I am just an ordinary working man but most the main blogging platforms are free to use. If something is free and it is fun then why not use it? I mean, there are worse things I can be doing in my down time. I could be drinking alcohol or watching porn or a number of other destructive things.

The two main platforms that I know of are WordPress and Blogger. I chose Blogger because it is part of the Google family and is compatible with other Google things. The blogger app is free to download and use on the phone.

I think everyone should have a blog because it will cost them nothing and give them a creative outlet. Human beings are creative creatures and part of our well being depends on our creations. We need to draw pictures and write down our thoughts and make poems to have a healthy mind.

Although I am an ordinary man I see myself as a boat that is heading for placid water. A creative person that is filled with questions and a strong desire to know more.

The other thing people think is why I put my diary on social media. My answer would be, what diary? I don't have a diary. They would then say what is "Alan's public diary" ? And I would say it is a blog. It doesn't matter what I call it, a blog is a blog.

Cloudy Morning

Hello Jacob, my son. If you wanted to know what you were like when you were less than 6 months old, I can tell you.

You are very much like most babies. You cry when you are hungry or uncomfortable. You can't walk or talk or sit up unassisted. You are trying very hard to talk. Perhaps when you are a bit older you will talk a lot.

We play nursery rhymes on TV and you like some and dislike others. You dislike "Head, shoulders knees and toes". You like Bingo the dog. You also like some Spanish ones with dancing chickens. You also like the finger song. "One little finger, one little finger, one little finger, tap tap tap". You already have a very distinct personality and you are only 3 months old.

I wonder every day what you will be like when you are older and what the 20s decade will be like for you, something you know better than me since you have been there already.

Bible Anger

I read through many scriptures in the past and learned many things but there are a few things that made me angry.

I was angry when I read the story of Noah, let me explain. Noah built a large boat to save people and animals from a global flood. When the flood went away he got drunk and his clothes fell off. He had 3 sons, Shem Ham and Japheph. Ham laughed at his father's nakedness so he put a curse of him and his descendents that they will become slaves.

To me that was not fair because Ham's descendents didn't do anything to him. In fact at the time of the curse, nearly all of hams descendents were not born. Why would you place a curse on someone's descendents (your own decendents) when they didn't wrong you? One the same page the Israelites claim that the sole descendents of Ham were the Canaanites. This is twisting the truth because if all people on Earth descended from just three men then every person would have a bit of Shem, Ham and Japheth in them because their descendents would have interbred.
They were using the story as an excuse to treat the Canaanites as second class citizens in their own land.

I'm not angry at God, just angry at the way people were in the past.

Was I wrong to feel angry when I read that scripture? Do people feel angry when they read my blog? I don't think people even read it anyway. Is God angry at me for feeling angry at Noah? I know so little and have so many questions.

Why Henry

If I was to go back to the 15th century and meet Henry Tudor, also known as King Henry the 8th, I would tell him that his male sperm can't swim fast enough.... That is why he didn't have male children. He married six different women and gave them all a hard time, why? Because of his ignorance. Plus, the Tudor Dynasty turned the Island of Britain into a fierce millitry machine that would eventually suppress millions of people around the world. That is something I feel unhappy about. I feel like the English empire smeared something from me as an English man, you see I can't claim that my country The United Kingdom of Britain is wealthy because of its innovations because people can always claim that slave money and spoils got Britain started. It is like a bank robber that steals a one million £ gold ingot and then invests the stolen wealth into a franchise and makes £10 million. People can rightly claim that he made £9 million because of stolen money and would be poor without it. Some nations are more blameless than the English and they still became wealthy, they can claim that the wealth is because of their efforts alone.

You see, being English is not about suppressing people. It is about being an armchair philosopher and being modest. That is what the English always were before tyrants took control. They were harmless friends of their neighbors. It is ordinary people like me that will return the Island of Britain back into a harmless friend of the world.

Strange fear

What is more scary? Earth being contacted by Aliens or Discovering that the building blocks of all matter in the universe is just information.

I found out this week that Quantum entanglement has been proven with camera technology. The theory is that particles that are separated can influence one another over distances so the state of one particle can affect the state of another particle even if that particle is very far away, like on the other side of the universe. When you look closely at the world at the sub atomic level you find that it is more like software than hardware.

The world we are living in is a volatile fluid world that is constantly reconfiguring itself. When you walk on the floor, the floor is not holding you up, the electric forces that surround particles in the floor are pushing your particles away and making you think you are walking on something solid. You are walking on electric force fields. That is one example of how crazy this world is.

I'm not saying we are living in a computer simulation but I am saying I wouldn't be surprised if we are.

Boris power

Boris Johnson has been voted leader of the conservative party, the Queen has welcomed him to the helm and he has made his speech and summoned his cabinet team.  Therasa May has stepped down, she did well I think.

Why did they take so long? We knew last month that Boris would win, he had more than double the votes as all the other candidates. Why did we wait until there is only 3 months left before the October deadline? I think they should have fast tracked his promotion.

My local MP Steve Barker happens to be the most hard core Brexiteer in the whole house of commons, why did he turn down a cabinet position? He has a clear plan in place. I guess he just wants to remain a back bencher.

Do they know that people like me get nervous when cabinet ministers quit on mass. When people are fleeing in a movie it is because there is danger, they are either running from an explosion or a monster. Yet the cabinet ministers and leaders are stepping down so often that they may as well go to Ikea and get a whole new Cabinet, I know that joke is not funny.

I wish Boris good luck, I keep my chin up for my island home. Rule Britania, my island of Hope and glory. May the Island of Great Britain and it's family stay in prosperity.

Maths Trick

This blog is not just about things I like, I hope it could be a constructive thing that the community finds useful.

Anyway

I have a trick for quickly working out percentages.

To know the percentage of a price I move the decimal place of the percent 2 places then multiply by the price.

5 percent would be Price X 0.05
20 percent would be Price X 0.20

If I wanted to add percent I would add 1.0 to the percentage

Adding 5 percent would be Price X 1.05
Adding 20 percent would be Price X 1.20

If I wanted to subtract a percentage I would take away the percentage from 100 then multiply by the new percent.

Subtracting 5 percent would be Price X 0.95
Subtracting 20 percent would be Price X 0.80

That's it.