Playing the Role of a Beer-swilling Heavy Metal Wizard!

Here's a picture from the very first Lone Wolf book "Fire on the Water" by Joe Dever, illustrated by Gary Chalk. I used to be a big fan of Gary Chalk's work, but must admit I preferred the work of John Blanche (Illustrator of the Sorcery Series), going as far as to buy a White Dwarf magazine on one occasion, becuase the cover had a wonderful piece of work by him, on it!

I would say that my mates and I made fairly strange teens, back in the late 1980's. We used to play MERP (Middle-Earth Role Playing), which a lot of people would have called nerdy, but we didn't really play it in the traditional style, we would have a piss-up, and listen to heavy metal at the same time. That added an extra dimension to game-play, because you would start killing your mates game characters systematically after several beers. Characters which they had fostered for months, and which had gathered lots of goodies over that time. That was just a bonus, you could kill their character, really pissing them off in the process, and then take all their characters possessions too. Yes, it did come to blows on several occasions!

The connection is, I guess, that my mates and I, we mainly got together in our Higher Art class, we had similar tastes in music, books etc. About half-a-dozen of us, and all great guys, although globally dispersed now. The most hilarious thing about the class, revolved around a guy who failed the exam badly (no names mentioned). So we all left school, got jobs and so on. I heard that this guy had gone to college in Dundee to do his Art Higher again, and ended up working as a graphic artist, on huge money. Such irony, the one guy who truly demonstrated no artistic talent, became an artist. Life can be so odd sometimes can't it?

The Last Great Cavalry Charge!

This is my Great Grandfather, Alexander Wilson in his uniform. He was in the 7th (Princess Royals) Dragoon Guards. He fought in the Somme, at Ypres I think. Him and his mates had the unenviable task of charging at the German Machine-guns, on horse-back (see his spurs?), and although you may find this difficult to believe, they were armed primarily with lances. Such was the incompetence of the British high-command, and in particular Earl Douglas Haig (in whose memory Poppy day is held), who thought that Cavalry still had a part to play in modern warfare. Of course they were slaughtered wholesale, Alex only survived because his horse got shot, he got knocked-out and ended-up trapped beneath the horse. He landed in hospital with dysentry eventually. They never had much in the way of food, so he'd had to eat raw flesh from his dead horse (horses are very clean animals), because someone stole his ration-pack when he was out-cold beneath the horse.

My Father said that he didn't talk much about the war, even though he kept asking him as a child. He must have seen some terrible stuff though. He did recount one story about seeing a soldier who was leading a donkey laden with ammo up to the frontline, falling into a mud-filled shell-hole. The donkey and the soldier just disappeared, never to be seen again. Everyone just carried on, death was meaningless to them. And to think, all those young men thought that they were heading off on some great adventure, and the ones who came back would never be able to convey how terrible it really was, so they kept it to themselves mainly.

Have Your Cake and Eat It!

As a diversionary tactic, here's another Big Train clip, featuring the talent that is Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz). If you're familiar with what we in the UK call "sayings", then you'll truly appreciate this!

My Ancestors Built Newgrange!

Continuing from yesterdays megalithic coverage, the image shows the Megalithic Passage Tomb at Newgrange in Knowth, Ireland. My parents went to the site 2 years ago, on a holiday in Ireland, but it was raining so they stayed in the nearby Bru na Boinne visitor centre, something for which I roundly chastised them, knowing as I do a little bit about the significance of the place.

Anyone who's read "Uriel's Machine", will no doubt hold the same fascination with the location as I do, enhanced in my case, because my ancestors lived in the vicinity, certainly at Ardee and Drogheda (5 miles away), and for all I know may even have numbered among the builders.

The site is especially significant as, being built (allegedly) around 3200 BC, Newgrange is older than the Great Pyramid (600 years older), although there are no signs of a large community ever having lived there, perhaps never more than 300. We're speaking about a period in which the average life expectancy was 25 and metal tools were non-existent (again allegedly). That shows how commited they must have been, and over generations. Consider that another 2 ruinous mounds of similar dimensions lie in the vicinity also. Like the pyramids and other ancient structures, Newgrange was previously considered to be a burial mound, but it was plainly a religious structure, like the pyramids, with corpses being added later, when the religious significance had been long forgotten.

The roof space of the passage is grooved so as to make it water-proof, and the passage is lined up diretctly with the Winter solstice. These guys who built it weren't stupid cavemen. The fact that megalithic cultures rose up independently of each other, all over the World, surely testifies to the fact that all of them were somehow connected to each other. It's almost as if they were part of one ancient race, which had been scattered across the face of the Earth, by some global catastrophe, and wherever the survivors found themselves, they sought to recreate what they had known before. Am I talking about Atlantis? Figuratively, yes! Call it what you like, but an ancient race with advanced technology clearly existed, and it's only a matter of time before conclusive proof of that fact comes to light. the truth can't be hidden forever!

Megalithic Dinosaur Hunters!

What do we know about the Megalithic Cultures of the ancient world? Checkout the picture from Baalbeck in Lebanon! There are 3 of these blocks (each over 800 tonnes) at Baalbeck, and they were already ancient before the Roman's built their temple on the site. Blocks of 300 tonnes plus are common-place there also. The fact is, the Romans could not handle weights of that scale, and until recently modern cranes did not have the capability to lift such weights either. Which makes it so much more surprising when you find out that many of the larger blocks sit on walls where the lower rows are made up of much smaller blocks, almost as though it was no problem whatsoever for the builders to place these cyclopean blocks wherever they wished.

Our present mindset represents the people who built these walls as nomadic hunter-gatherers, venturing into farming, still using fairly primitive tools. I think we've got it all wrong, these people clearly had ideas and knowledge which has since disappeared.

Think the Baalbeck blocks are some achievement, then let's consider the massive stone blocks at Tiahuanaco, in Bolivia, such as the Gateway of the Sun and others. Not only are these stones huge, intricately carved with carvings of animals such as Toxodons, that have been extinct for 2 million years (how much proof do you need? Toxodon remains have been found with spear tips in them too). The fact that Tiahuanaco is now at an altitude which makes it uninhabitable, and it's piers are 12 miles from Lake Titicaca, where they belong, along with the fact that massive blocks have been turned upsides-down, indicate, how ancient Tiahuanaco really is, and suggest some massive land upheaval there in possibly the distant past.

Consider that current archaeological theories propose that the site was built 2200 years ago, contrary to the obvious evidence which would suggest nearer 17,000 years ago (a conserbvative estimate), but also that the native indians who built the site apparently carved the intricate stelae by repeatedly dropping stone balls upon them, as native South Americans possessed no metal tools.

So, what does this all suggest? Well, like the Ica Stones, which I mentioned a couple days back, there seems to be mounting evidence that not only did ancient man have superior technologies to our own, he also hunted Dinosaurs! How can that be?

• Dinosaurs on stone carvings in South America
• Dinosaur remains with spear wounds and at least one with a bullet hole
• The Ica Stones also depict men hunting Dinosaurs
• Shoe prints were found following Dino prints in a dried-up river bed in Mexico and a similar scenario is found in Turkmenistan

Yes, we have been lied to about human evolution, many professionals are aware of the fact, but a few top scientists with their own agenda are keeping the poublic at large in the dark. They can't have us realising that not only are the theories of natural selection and evolution by mutation, but all world religions also, based entirely on misconceptions and lies. The truth is too dangerous for us to deal with, ignorance is surely bliss and, the more ignorant fools the better, obviously!

My Italian Travels with Spiderman 3 and Umberto!

Just a quick post today, went to Elgin this morning to try and book a holiday to Italy, of course the Travel Agents were mostly closed because of the May Day holiday. That idea having collapsed like a house of cards, we headed for Inverness to watch Spiderman 3, stopping off first at my favourite bookshop "Borders", where I purchased Umberto Eco's "The Name Of the Rose" and "Foucault's Pendulum". Should have bought The Name Of the Rose long ago seeing the film's in my all-time top 3, anyway here's hoping the book is even better. I've often stated in the past that there isn't a film that's been made, which is better than the book it's based on! Although, Gary from College would always mention The Godfather at this point (apparently the book wasn't too hot).

Well, Spiderman 3 was Ok, slow in places, but making up for it with an all-out tag-team finale of Spidey and Harry Versus Venom and the Sandman! Is it better than the first two? probably on a par I'd say!

First exam (Artificial Intelligence) is a week today, gotta get some revision in, but in the mean-time check out the video clip from Big Train, make sure and listen to the commentary. UK sports fans will definitely ROFL to this one, but it should appeal to anyone.

Prince and the Jockeys!

Hilarious clip from Big Train! Just for fun this post!

Sinister or Dexter Brained Society?

I have an opinion which might possibly have a scientific basis in reality or not, which I will postulate here, but please remember that this is only an idea I've been kicking around in my head for a couple years, and it would be quite difficult to prove or dis-prove.

It occured to me a while ago that our ancestors might well have reached a pinnacle of humanity equivalent to where we are now, in the distant or very distant past. I've already laid out some evidence to support the credibility of that statement, however, global changes since the last Ice Age ended, have more than likely consigned the best evidence to the sea-bed, for surely any powerful ancient civilization would have depended on sea-trade and would have had its major cities based on coastal regions or near river mouths.

My theory then is this, I propose that those civilizations were completely different in thought and deed to modern-man. That they were in fact largely left-brainers, because they did not use language in a written form. We tend to think of language as letters, given form and definition. Imagine a society where everything was orally transmitted, scared texts were memorized, becuase the words held power, and to write those words would be an evil deed as it would destroy the power of the words. I'm talking about a society in which spirituality was at the driving-force (today it's consumerism and materialism) in technological development.

Try and imagine what technology we would possess if we were such a society, as opposed to television and weapons of mass destruction. We're talking about people who would have been in touch with nature, perhaps they possessed animal kinship and telepathy, or telekinetic powers. Certainly, heavy devlopment of the left-hand side of the brain, over the right could give you a whole new mind-set! We can only imagine an advanced society as being similar to our own, but what's so good about where we're at? It seems like we've been devolving, not evolving. Yes, we have made great technological advances, but what good's having a TV, just to watch people getting murdered on it? Is that what marks us out as civilized, how good we are at killing each other?

Uncovering the Truth Behind Perpetuated Lies !

Returning to a subject I promised to cover before being side-tracked with College work, Election fever and what not: Archaelogical cover-ups! I'll examine one in detail, but just keep an open mind, that's all I ask, and remember, the man wants to control what you think, believe and perceive to be true. I am not the man!

The best case I've seen yet was the discovery by Dr Virginia Steen-McIntyre, a geologist working for the US Geological Survey (USGS), who was dispatched to an archaeological site in Mexico to date a group of artifacts in the 1970s. The case illustrates how far established scientists will go to preserve persisting beliefs regarding human history.

McIntyre used state-of-the-art equipment and backed up her results by using four different methods, but her results were off the chart. The lead archaeologist expected a date of 25,000 years or less, and the geologist's finding was 250,000 years or more.

The figure of 25,000 years or less was critical to the Bering Strait "crossing" theory, and it was also the motivation behind the head archaeologist's tossing Steen-McIntyre's results in the circular file and asking for a new series of dating tests. This sort of reaction does not occur when dates match the expected chronological model that supports accepted theories. By the way, the secondary dating pushed the find back even further, and the fact that the artifacts were below a volcanic deposit layer further confirmed the dating.

Steen-McIntyre was given a chance to retract her conclusions, but she refused. She found it hard thereafter to get her papers published and she lost a teaching job at an American University. This incident is one of thousands where experts have put their necks on the line to tell the truth only to be destroyed by the back-room, old boy network, who don't want to see any anomalous findings completely over-turning their lifetime's work and theories. You can see where they''re coming form, but it's just plain wrong! It's not just our concept of historical events that are at stake, but the theory of human evolution also, for there's mounting evidence to suggest that Darwin was talking bollocks!

Other examples I urge you to investigate yourself are:

• The water-weathering on the Sphinx


• The so-called proof that Khufu built the Great Pyramid


• The Ica Stones


• The Waipoua Forest discoveries in New Zealand


• The Takla Makan desert Mummies


• The Olmec people of Mexico (See Picture)


• Bearded caucasians depicted on stelae in Mexico

Fingers Crossed for the SNP !

OK, I've been watching the election results closely all day, and it's still too close to count, and the electoral system is clearly the shambles we expected. Take a look at the Scottish Parliament and you'll get a good idea why anything remotely concerning Scottish politics, usually ends up a disaster.

Although my political opinions might not interest anyone further afield than Elgin, this is my platform and I will express them, because that is my constitutional right.

I did vote for the SNP, not because I agree with probably half of their policies, but because I wanted Labour out, and in that respect, only the SNP have the potential to drive them out. The trouble with our electoral system is, even if the SNP gain a majority, unless they find another party willing to form a coalition, we could be looking at another Lib/Lab alliance, especially with the Lib Dem reluctance to allow the people of Scotland the chance to have a referendum on Independence. My cynical side tells me that it's an obvious ploy by them to get back into bed with Labour.

Anyway, I here you ask, why do I want Labour out so badly? Well, if you lived here in the North East of Scotland, you wouldn't need to ask. I can't think of a single positive thing Labour has done for me since devolution. There are many negatives though, too many:

• I now owe £13,000 in loans and fees for educating myself.
• I haven't had an NHS dentist for 4 years. My last dentist was a South African, who went private as soon as he was able. I can't afford private treatment, so I don't get any. Welcome to the Third World !
• The road infrastructure here is probably 30 years out-of-date and public transport is expensive, occasional and fairly inaccessble!
• My country is involved in at least 2 pointless wars, which have no support by the people and we're losing badly!
• There are no jobs here, what few jobs there were have been filled by immigrant workers, prepared to work for the minimum wage (sometimes less), and this in turn has driven wages down also!
• Bizzarely, last year, although a full-time student with a wife and 2 kids, my student loans were considered by the Council to be income, and I had to pay full rent and council-tax, wtf?

These are my grievances with Labour! I don't know what a SNP in majority will do for this country, but even if it's only enough to give Labour a fright, that will do for me!