To thine own self be true

One of many fun, interesting, unique artifacts I have collected along the way.

Quotations on the mug:

-When you have eliminated the impossible,whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

-Be aware: All great criminals have a complex mind.

-Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

-One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it.

-Never make exceptions. An exception proves the rule.

-There is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

-Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

-There is nothing so important as trifles.

-It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence.

-Don’t just see: observe.

-The little things are infinitely the most important.

-Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

-It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which vital.

-When a fact appears to be opposed to a long train of deduction, it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation.

-Never guess. It is a shocking habit–destructive to the logical faculty.

-It is easier to know than to explain why I know.

-Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

-There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

-There is no branch of deductive science which is so important and so much neglected as the art of tracing footsteps.

-There can be no question of the value of exercise before breakfast.

Obit: Canadian no-nonsense, truth-telling journalist, Christie Blatchford, 68.

37 hit-and-runs in E-Town’s snowstorm yesterday. 37 frightened, self-centered, morally irresponsible drivers loose on the streets of Edmo.

natives block the pipelines and railways and coronavirus potentially threatens Canada. And where is our absentee PM today? Africa, of course!

–Bill Clinton.

“Is” is often equated with “true”, “the truth”, “facts”, “exists”, and “verifiably true”. Which is why I have no patience with liars (e.g., Trump: over 16,000 lies and misrepresentations since taking power over 3 years ago). He has lied throughout his presidency, during the impeachment proceedings, and afterward; he is incorrigible, “fake news”, horribly misleading and distracting, and simply full of b.s. all the way.

More basically, I would say that “exists” and “true” (as in verifiable to self and others) constitute a possible foundation for viewing and understanding many things in life. Often there is a blend of common sense, objective fact and reason to this process. Things get confusing, though, when the O’Briens (Trumps) of the world hold up a perceivable number of fingers and tell some poor schmoe like Winston Smith that he can’t believe his eyes. Instead, he must believe his ears and the toxin that the dictators pour into them unfiltered.

So an individual will be o.k., sane, and potentially smart and ungullible if s/he believes the evidence of the senses along with other mind-processed evidence without the obstruction and interference of a third party, especially with obvious agendas.

Potentially, an individual has the capacity for realizing truth, fact, and existence from unblinkered, unagenda-ed (including personal) perception and evidential correspondence from experience, close critical reading, a well-rounded education, and established facts.

What “is”, exists, and is true, ultimately, comes from the best available information an individual has along with a series of perspectived contexts to view that info in/against.

The worst trend of the Trump era is to deny all the above and to ignorantly believe in and adhere to sheer agenda-ed crap foisted on people whose education is low or incomplete in the wider scope of sane, rational, and common-sensical public argument.
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There are many truths in life, especially as an individual finds out, emanating from inside and outside, but one must needs have an evolving crap detector to fend off the fake news, fictitious narratives, and unabashed propaganda (including feel-good advertising) of our time.

There are also both subjective and objective truths, and those larger, more universal truths (Truth) that emerge when there is a corresponding truth between the two. For all the alternative brainwashed rubes on the “other side”, though, there is not much hope except for a lemming-like plunge off a mindless cliff in some Nowhere Land.

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Orwell Brush-up

“Orthodoxy means not thinking–not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”

“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”

“Reality is inside the skull.”

“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth, even against the whole world, you were not mad.”

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

pronounced “drowned”, not “drownded” and “mischievous”, not “mischievious”.

Global Edmonton tv reported that a “gal” was riding on an ETS bus Sunday in the “all together”, another quaint expression. “For Me and My Gal” was a popular olde song which suggested closeness and fondness, but do you reckon that was true, as Global suggested, assumptively for this nude woman who was “doing her thing” and “following her bliss”?

and the likes of Moe Norman, Al Balding, and George Knudson (who went to Bannatyne, the same school as me, in Winnipeg).

One-shot’ Mike Weir (of winery fame) much later won the Masters and yesterday Nick Taylor (with his Taylor-Made brand equipment) aced Pebble Beach, arguably the most beautiful oceanside course in the States. Congrats, Mike. An impressive win over Mickelson, shooting for his 6th Pebble Beach win.

Open a jar of liquid No-Snore (available at medical health supplies stores) in your bedroom to keep your nose and throat open all night. (I recommend that you not put the jar directly on furniture to prevent possible spill damage and that you place it where you are not likely to bump into it or come close to it at night. Use a tissue to open and close the jar and wash hands afterward.)

A Vicks Inhaler can help keep the nose open, too.

If you have a sore throat, take a red cherry Cepacol candy; it will numb your throat and brings instant relief.

If you are coughing and need a sleep, Benalyn Dry Cough Extra Strength (formerly DM) will eventually work.

Tylenol will relieve any other head congestion taken before bedtime.

“I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”

“It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.”