A Matter of Gravity

 

Dave Prowse headed up our London Prime Study Group in the 1970s.
Dave Prowse was a prime participant in our London Sci-Fi Fantasy Cons — he lives with his wife & 3 children in Bristol, UK.

Gravity is often thought of as one of the few “forces” that travel through the universe, pushing, pulling and getting in the way of everything, cluttering up the whole thing with their interactive interactions, as it were.

“Modern” science knows nothing of forces — what they are, why they are here and where they come from. Some scientists think they’ve isolated four major forces that govern the Einsteinian Universe — The Strong Force, The Weak Force, Electro-Magnetism and Gravity.

Shit, Gravity ain’t even a force. It’s an effect of Space-Bending, which is itself a result of information imposed upon or embedded within the Space-Time Matrix, which is a phantom projection oriented on the grid, with “objects” placed where an effect is to occur.

Weak Force, Strong Force — who named those two things, anyway? Some addle-brained super-scholar must have hit on those…

“Say, I’ve just discovered the two most fundamental forces in the universe,” exclaims Scientist.

“What you gonna name them?” asks another. It’s customary for the discoverer to name the thing — gives scientists some motivation other than doing it just because it’s there to be discovered.

“I think I’ll call the stronger one “The Strong Force”, and the weaker one, “The Weak Force”.

“Uh, huh,” nods Scientist #2, “Are you the same guy that names every lullaby Lullaby??? Why not name the first one Adam and the second one Eve???”

“Naw, too Jewish,” he replied, and “Strong Force” and “Weak Force” remain the names we use today.

Dare I mention that these are not actually forces at all? The so-called Strong and Weak Forces are results of actual events, but Urth Science isn’t even looking in the right place for causes if they think they’ve found it in the realm of atomic and molecular bonding. Pardon me while I laugh.

Just wait until some scientific Johnny comes along with a theory that says that there aren’t actually any forces in the universe, just effects and events.

And when someone comes along much, much later than that and offers, “The reason people can’t change is that they’re made like that,” there’ll be hell to pay and heads will roll when the Red Queen hears the battle cry of the “Resonistas”, a group that is due to form sometime in the latter part of the 21st century and no, I don’t mean “Rationalists”.

Rationality is hard to come by when your world is controlled by biker gangs, and in some parts of the world, it will be, and a lot sooner than you think.

Of course, the bikes will be silent, deadly and upon you before you know it, like the Vikings of Old, except this is part of the New Reality that is just around the next bend.

In that world, tattoos are a very important part of identification and group belonging, tribalism in a very violent modern world, in which several world religions are fighting for total control of the planetary population.

Along with that will be a number of nations that regard themselves as the Ideal Culture, and they’ll be wanting to impose that upon the rest of the world.

In short, since the cavemen, nothing has changed.

The reason nothing has changed is that deep within the MetaProgramming of Human Biological Machines there is a little bug, just a tiny one, something I guess we overlooked in the Great Plan, meaning the .exe file that drives most universes.

There’s always the universe that didn’t develop Black Holes, but they’re slowly disappearing as the “renew” factor isn’t there — Universes obey the same laws as natural selection, genetic sporting (which isn’t a new kind of sex) and motherhood.

Motherhood is very important, and that’s sort of one of those hidden natural agendas that lie deep within the sub-sub-subconscious, and can’t be dug out except by Meta levels of reprogramming the Human Biocomputer, a tough task when you consider what drives ALL humans…

Self-Esteem.

I know, it’s a stupid way to run a universe, but it works. Lemme prove it to you….and don’t forget that the Universal Constant has to be really, really simple, travel indefinitely, self-replicate and create change. This is not easy, when you’ve got just a few lousy megabytes of RAM and even less ROM, all duplicated from a single God Particle and all carrying exactly the same INFORMATION on their surfaces as everything else.

It’s all connected, all instantaneous, independent of lightspeed, and it happens to work, so there! I’m always looking for better answers — that’s why I’m here with you now. I can be wrong, have been wrong, and will be wrong again, but every right answer stands on the shoulders of a million wrong answers.

That’s the way success happens.

Thousands and thousands of tries, thousands of failures, one success, and then after that, it’s back on the road again, looking for an even better answer. That’s Real Science.

Claude’s friend Archimedes once said to us “Give me a fulcrum, and I could move the very universe with a lever big enough.”

I still like Claude’s response: “You and what army???”

Self-Esteem is the fulcrum upon which the human being is crucified, locked down, locked in, controlled and manipulated by nature, natural forces, people and the environment.

This sounds terrible at first blush, but give me a moment to explain:

Sex is a strong natural instinct, but it has no chance without self-esteem. Sex is nature’s way of raising one’s self-esteem, and this adds to the other reasons to go to all the trouble of having sex and cleaning up afterward and being bored again and disappointed again.

A good memory tends to destroy relationships.

Sex isn’t enough to keep human beings going, although it is THE major motivator for men and women alike, although for entirely different reasons in each of those two species.

Self-Esteem has at its core the dollar-value that someone puts on themselves.

If that dollar-value has been lessened, crushed or utterly destroyed, self-esteem rests at what is called “The Bottom of the Well”. I have known and worked with tens of thousands of folks who described their condition as exactly that…the bottom of the well.

Is there a way up from there?

Yes, there is, but it isn’t through self-esteem. That takes you nowhere, or into the realm of super-paranoid schizophrenic socio-pathology, and I’ll explain why…

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Think of SELF-ESTEEM as a kind of teeter-totter, a see-saw, balancing”HIGH SELF-ESTEEM” with “LOW SELF-ESTEEM”.

When your Self-Esteem is Higher, you feel more confident, more in control, more balanced, more certain of yourself and more ALIVE.

When your Self-Esteem is on LOW, you feel afraid to move, afraid to do anything for fear of being even more wrong than you already are, you lack energy, don’t want to move or make a wrong move by moving, don’t have any ambition, and you’re totally depressed.

When you’re clinically depressed, you have to find a reason for your depression, so you focus on whatever’s going wrong at the moment, and decide that into place as the cause of your depression, but it isn’t.

Low Self-Esteem is the cause, the direct cause, and the only way you know to raise your self-esteem is by lowering the self-esteem of everyone around you, particularly your life-partner, if you managed to acquire one in spite of the odds against it.

Is there any other way to raise your self-esteem besides crushing the self-esteem of others? Sure there is, but you have to outgrow the need for self-esteem good OR bad before you can take that road.

Low Self-Esteem makes you doubt others, distrust others, and want admiration and approval from others.

That’s funny.

Think about it. You want the approval and admiration of others. What does that actually bring to the table? I mean, why not spill your guts to a total stranger on a Trailways bus?

Talking about ISSUES doesn’t make them go away, make them any less potent or painful, or make them any less destructive. Issues are not the problem, they’re the symptoms of a problem.

The problem doesn’t become clinical until others are involved.

Low Self-Esteem is usually patched up by dating, mating, or getting high ratings. It’s really simple, and it has to be, in order to make things work right. This stuff is scattered throughout the galaxy, and galaxies are scattered throughout the Einsteinian Universe, many billions and billions and billions of them, and every single one has billions and billions of beings afflicted with low self-esteem.

Low self-esteem is what makes the universe tick.

Without it, people would basically go about their business quietly without creating havoc and destruction, without war, without the need for government or police or armies, without theft, without personal violation, without aggression — a world of peace and harmony.

You know very well that nothing of the kind is destined to happen anytime soon here on Planet Urth, so you might be well-served to find out fast how to escape the trap of Self-Esteem.

Note that I said “Self-Esteem”, not “Low” or “High”, and that’s because it’s the whole self-esteem thing that needs to go, and it can’t just be eliminated. Just like a habit or an addiction, it must be replaced by something else, because NATURE ABHORS A VACUUM, and you can quote me on that.

A powerful substitute for Self-Esteem is Creativity. Both of these are equally powerful and have great potential for both good and bad things — it’s entirely up to you how you use them and who gets the benefit — you alone, you and your spouse, you and your family, or you plus all beings everywhere, without personal limitations thrown in.

That’s a hard one for a Low Self-Esteemer to accept. Personal and clan greed is driven by Low Self-Esteem. Don’t forget that the only thing that drives low self-esteem up is the crushing downward drive upon the self-esteem of others — YOU ONLY GO UP WHEN THEY GO DOWN.

That’s how self-esteem works.

You can’t allow others to have high self-esteem, because then you have to compare your value to their value, and you have no way of doing that except through the pecking order of your local clan or family or circle of friends, and that’s what causes diamonds, limousines and fancy clothing.

Naturally, if you’re a woman on the Pecking Order, you’ll want to show off your man — he should have a three-day growth of beard to begin with, and he should look good enough that all your friends are envious of you, and rate you a star, because you bagged a big one.

Well, don’t worry, you’ll be able to tell them later what a heel he really is, and that you’re working it out with him to save the marriage for the sake of the kids, and they admire you for sticking it out and for keeping yourself off the sex market more or less.

Happily married means you probably won’t screw their husbands; you’re presumably satisfied with running your Old Man for the moment, and won’t hunt amongst theirs.

MEN BUY, WOMEN SHOP.

Men don’t shop around for things. They decide what they want and go get it, in and out of the store like ducks mating, which happens also to be his style of affection. Women tend to always be shopping, looking for bargains, better things for less cost, and that includes their next husband.

Look, let’s be realistic. In this day and age, with easy “no-fault” divorce and far less hassle to the divorcee than in the Old Days, there’s really no reason to keep the same husband or wife for more than a few months or perhaps as many as eight or ten years, until the kids are old enough to understand why mommy and daddy don’t get along.

They never understand, and unless you know how to help them through a divorce, they’ll always blame themselves for the breakup.

In a way, they’re right.

He was originally attracted to her, before they even spoke. This should tell you something.

Imagine meeting someone online and dating online. Naturally, your voices will be smooth and calm and soft and well-toned, modulated and soothing and nice.

Face to face is a different story, especially when you’re stressed. The warm tones will be gone from your voice and rough, aggressive tones will be in their place. You’ll sound normal for a change.

So what brings self-esteem up?

You weren’t listening when I said that it’s not about low or high; it’s about self-esteem itself. You need to outgrow the need for self-esteem.

There isn’t really any direct way to do that, but there is a CURE FOR SELF-ESTEEM.

So, okay, there’s a cure. So how’s it done?

You’ve just invited yourself to the SELF ESTEEM WORKSHOP. See you there.

See You At The Top!!!

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