And Then, Suddenly, Everything Makes Sense

What did it take me, I dunno, maybe six hours? To make a classic French onion soup...

For me one of the things about French onion soup, is that if a thousand good cooks make it, no two would be exactly the same.

That is, if we are talking good cooks, here. Anyone can make something that is not good... And in that latter all persons rank the same: they are all doing something equally bad!

The great classic - French onion soup

Good French onion soup is of course, simply fantastic.

But then today, all of a sudden and as if almost out of thin air, something else - and Bill, we haven't even opened the good wine you brought over(!) - something else occurred that came out of a bottle of Barrossa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon.

Suddenly everything made sense.

Everything about the whole entire Universe, made sense.

I mean you can talk all you like about Quantum Physics, or the empirical value of science; but you see, everyone who drinks wine as a knowing individual, knows that there is no such thing as a permanently repeatable experience of a particular bottle, or a particular wine - there is just that one you are immediately experiencing.

And so, we know that as we sense what is in the big glass before us, as we sense that what is going to come is something quote exceptional, we also know in the back of our minds that it may not necessarily last, or ever be experienced in quite the same way ever again. The soup is wonderful, the wine is not beautiful but it is powerful, and it is magical - it starts doing impossible things. All those things we easily accuse the expert tasters of imagining, are starting to happen for us too - the odd things that are not supposed to be there: varnish, sealing wax, tomato, Levantine leather, cedar filings, books of lost and forgotten lore, celery seeds, dark plums and other mysterious fruits, the smell of the inside of a new Aston Martin, sugar, molasses, all that kind of lunatic nonsense. It's all there, in the bottle, now in the glass, now approaching under your nose, now touching your tongue and the back of your mouth.

It isn't a strong wine, it doesn't feel as if it will bang you in the head, and the oak is there but it is so safe and relaxed. 

And it conveys to you a secret and hidden meaning within our world that few ever get hold of in their life - suddenly, in a twinkling it shows you how everything makes sense, and it does... ...make sense.

...Now here is a piece of music that there are few women on the planet capable of allowing themselves to be seduced by:

Give Your Current Human Life Back!!

I just experienced one of the top three or four all-time greatest performances of live art and culture and high intellect ever.

It was the October 2018, Sydney performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 performed by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under Edo de Waart - together with the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and the soloists Amanda Majeski (soprano), Caitlin Hulcup (mezzo-soprano), Kim Begley (tenor), and Shenyang (bass-baritone).

Of the other 'top of all time' are of course, Nureyev's Casse Noisette with Merle Park circa 1968, Maya Plisetskaya's Odile (Black Swan) and whatever other obscure performance the grande aficionados will include that must always be included as that 'mystery' item.

There is no possible way you will ever get a better, more self-assured and confident rendering by a live orchestra of this greatest of master-works.

You can - if you are also one of these 'high art and culture' types - watch the performance here:


http://watch.sydneysymphony.com/detail/videos/sydney-symphony-live/video/5854151942001/beethoven-nine-live-with-the-sydney-symphony-orchestra?autoStart=true

It's about an hour and something to get through, and you need a good beer (thanks Hakim...) and maybe a clear starry sky to look up into as you experience the mind of God at work. 

And if you haven't got that sort of time, and even if you do and watch the thing and don't get it - hand your life back in to wherever you stole it from! If you ever wanted to know what you are doing here on this planet, follow the link above, and imbibe deeply.  

Abdul al-Ziphr - The Slave of No One

This wine-drenched Christmas-tide we spent a good few recent evenings with a certain Saudi Prince-ling (who shall remain nameless) indulging the wicked Western Jesus culture of wine drinking - although he (the Prince-ling) refrained, of course, being more than adequately inebriated on money and power.

I thought he was being the typical smart-alec rich person, with this silly plastic Swatch item on his wrist, until he casually remarked that it was made entirely of a single piece of corundum crystal - and so I took a second look.

Visually, in fact, it's quite a nice piece... On second glance I realized it was much better looking than your average Swatch watch. 

It was of course, the latest Hublot Unico Red Ruby - lab-grown crystalline aluminium oxide mixed with chromium: ...IE., a ruby. A whole solid ruby casing for the Swiss watch mechanism.

And we are a little like this ourselves on this Blogspot - not exactly what everything at first appears.

You see, the matter one has to be careful of these days, is not to expose things, formats, details, even style, in the open public channels, because unscrupulous and misguided people just plain steal what you are doing whole-cloth and then replicate it in the exact same format but pushed as if it were a viral phenomenon - thereby damaging what you are actually doing by not being able to provide or to carry forward on the substance. 

So, for those of you are relatively new to these pages, we do not say everything here, and nor do we really explain what we are doing precisely - but only offer a few directions. 

As far as the Saudi poker advances thing is concerned, those who have registered formally, get directed to private web-sites and web addresses which cover what is going on in detail.

Lanique is a very Arabic Damask and Taif rose-essence liqueur...

We're operating in a big - nay, a HUGE market space. It's not just that there are 2 billion Muslims who are allowed to play this Baloot game and its money-prizes format, but the whole entire Western casino business would like in... ...and can't get in. And not to mention that what they would really like is to be able to replicate the staking advances process that is inherent to the Gulf B aloot championships, and be able to apply it to the many more billions of Western poker players.

So, don't mistake where you are, and what you are reading...

In The Money!

Ah well, accidental good timing... Well, there is just nothing like it, really. No amount of 'genius' financial logic and thinking will ever beat 'good timing.'

Feeling that 'charter the private jet' feeling...

I have no particular reason to have literally picked the actual bottom of the digital crypto-currency market last month. The market had been nothing but falling knives for weeks and months, ever since hitting the ATH of more or less twenty thousand USD a while back - in fact, on December 17, 2017.

Because of this poker staking ('buy in') advances thing we're running right now, we bought a small chunk of Bitcoin at $3,000.

I've been extremely specific about using digital crypto-currencies as bridges for on-line transactions of exotic, mostly digital 'work' and not trying to invest in them or deal in them as investing commodities as such. And so, booking some kind of profit right now doesn't necessarily mean anything compared to the objective of achieving expanded digital networks and the developing of digital trading or things using crypto-currencies.

Of course, however, one would be rather miserly to fail to allow a fulsome commitment to carousing and wassailing this particular Christmas!! 

'Tycoon Tan's' baked crab (Hong Kong eating place)

Biting The Tax Apple...

PEOPLE DO NOT BELIEVE IN IDEAS, THEY BELIEVE IN POWER

There is no 'apple' in the Book of Genesis, okay. We've already talked about that.

But there also, is no 'Apple' on the US taxpayer register. Not really. But you can 'bite' Apple if you are willing to 'do certain things.'

I think I must tread carefully here.

This is the stuff of Bond movies...

Silk Road oasis 'village.' A veritable 'Garden of Eden' to some;
Eden is a relative 'place.'

You see, what do corporations as large as Apple - do with all of that tax dollar allocation, which they never hand over to the government as actual taxes?

Do they organize themselves and conspire to have a shadow government that they control, against the legitimate legacy 'government' we all believed we were pledging our faith and allegiance to?

The human condition...

No one at the top of these organizations would be so bold, would they?

Now here is the key to following how humans function as groups:

People do not believe in ideas, they believe in power.

There is no known 'bridge' between static mathematics, in their pure 'idea' forms, and material action and motion. Numbers do not move off the page by themselves, nor do shapes, or volumes, but more importantly, not a single 'idea' converts itself into the action and motion of any physical object out in the world we can see; and nor does it even transfer itself by itself, or transform itself from an idea, to a real material thing.

And this is the principle reason people viscerally dismiss ideas, and are enthralled with action in front of their eyes. 

They might not openly admit it, but they don't believe in ideas. And they will even deny that they dismiss ideas. ...But they dismiss ideas.

Ideas - numbers, shapes, physics - none of these have emotion contained literally in them as an actual part of them. Humans have emotions; and so you can see, that there is a stark difference in nature between humans and ideas.