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The Face on Mars

The reviews on Nazi Moon I posted, prompted me to look at the reviews on The Face on Mars. Once I have finished a book, I tend to forget about it, which explains why I suck at marketing myself to any degree, so you can consider this my generic attempt at seeing if posting this makes any difference to the number of books bought. I doubt it, but I certainly can’t be accused of trying too hard, so we’ll see. I picked three reviews on it.

by Andrew Harrison

I’ve had this book in my wish list for a while. Now I have finished reading it, I wish I bought it earlier. Although the bulk of the work is over twenty years old, nevertheless it stands the test of time, the more recent updates only improve the original hypothesis. The bibliography is also most useful for those interested in ‘alternative’ themes, I’ve read a good deal of what’s referenced, but would have found it sooner and had a better ability to integrate the materials if I had read this first, really it’s that good. If you are just starting to look for answers you can’t find in the standard narrative or are steeped in these subjects then this work will appeal to you. Seriously don’t let this sit in your wish list for years, buy it read it. Either it will alter your view of reality forever or simply help integrate the research you have done so far. So conspiracy a grand theory unified? Well there’s still plenty to learn but this is very good start!

The next one is by an anonymous Amazon confirmed buyer.

Giuseppe’s approach to presenting an idea is very interesting because he appears to appreciate the fractal and interconnected nature of all things. Whatever the subject is that has grabbed his attention you will find that he attacks it from all angles whilst also taking steps to thoroughly address possible objections.

Applying this to the anomalous photograph of a face on Mars, he takes you through an explanation of planetary mechanics, military aerial surveying technologies, propulsion technologies, tales from ancient cultures, and much more to offer an explanation to something that otherwise defies explanation.

Even if you disagree with his conclusions you will gain from reading this book as it is both intellectually stimulating and intellectually rewarding.

And the third one by Cooper Chauvin, who I recognise the name of from other reviews, this gentleman has pretty much bought every book I wrote, and he has emailed me to thank me for the impact my books have had on his life, so he is clearly biased, although I do not know him personally. In other words, he obviously has excellent taste is what I’m trying to say!

The Face on Mars is one of the best books I have ever read. With the utmost disernment, Filotto brings you through a vast and complex theory that obligates you to rethink your idea of the world around you (and that’s putting it lightly). It’s long and extensivly reaserched, but it’s an awesome book so that worked out great! By the end, it’s hard not to be convinced. I highly recomend this book. The original version (1996) still holds up today, “against all odds”. I will definetly read it again!

    Nazi Moon – First Reviews

    I have to say I was very pleased with the first reviews trickling in on the hardcopy version of the book on Amazon

    This guy actually came back to update it after he finished it, which is a rare feat for most readers, I am sure.

    About 100 pages in, so far I love it. Nice looking book as well. I will update further once finished reading!

    It is a great book. It is a great introduction to Filotto’s non-fiction, and inversely it is a great way to understand the various threads of his non-fiction if you have read it. I highly recommend you read his other books as well, in no particular order. Just read them all.

    But this review is about this trilogy.

    Do you want sci-fi? Are you tired of sci-fi that is just unrealistic?
    You were born before Europe sailed to America. You were born to young to visit the stars. Or so you thought.

    You are in the right place. The author has gone to great lengths to ensure that his fictional story, involving aether, anti-gravity, nazis on the moon, healing chambers, is realistic. It is to the point that I would see it as an alternative history. Nothing is too far fetched, especially if you have read his other works.
    The various plotlines are complicated, but are aligned in an order that makes the whole story easy to follow. I understand if you don’t believe me, but give it a try, you’ll see that it is reasonable.

    To those afraid of the nazi theme, I assure you the author is not some kind of neo-nazi. He is quite clear about it in the annex. Nonetheless, he does a good job in representing their ideology in a fair manner, scum-bags that they are.

    I should note that this book is R-rated, take that as you will.

    All in all, I would like to say more and discuss some of the ideas/implications of this work, but I don’t want to spoil anything either. All I can say is that it is probably my favorite sci-fi trilogy ever and the ending begs for a continuation. I have yet to read confederate rising, the novella in the same world.

    Buy it, it is worth it.
    Even if you don’t like it, your forearm will get bigger from reading this brick of a book.

    And this one breaks it down by book.

    This Ombinus was a page turner. From the hook in the first book, Inception, to the twists and turns in the last book, it is worth the read.

    Book 1:
    This sets the stage (or so you think) for the series. The historical fiction aspects mixed in with the journey to Mars should spark your curiosity about history in general, unless you just are not inquisitive about life in general.

    This book also hints at just how odd Mars would be for someone.

    Book 2:

    Definitely a different pace, as the author cautions. A lot of bedroom scenes too, which in my opinion can be skipped once you realize the general nature of Martian society and how they’ve elected to run it in terms of family structure.

    Book 3:

    Definitely the most “challenging” and mind bending of them, but also the most fun in terms of “what ifs”, especially in regard to technology. You may end this book wondering how many good guys there really are and if the lines are clear cut (yes in terms of morals, no in terms of each “side”).

    Overall, I felt I spent my time well in reading these books. I was entertained.

    Thank you to both readers, their taking the time to write a full length review is always appreciated by any author.

    Remember the book is also available for less, directly from my E-store in a variety of formats, as are many (but not all) my books. Towards the end of this month, the individual books of the Overlords of Mars Series will also be released from their kindle contracts with Amazon and I will be adding them individually to the E-Store.

    The Face on Mars and Systema, remain in book form only for the moment and the near future, as converting them is a lengthy process due to their specific layout and requirements. The Hardcover version of The Crusades has been held up for at present unknown reasons, but you can still get the E-version at the same link for the E-Store above. And as some have asked, no, the E-Books you buy from my E-Store are not controlled by Amazon and we will never change or update them on your device like they did to the Roald Dahl stories to Wokethenise them.

      The Crusades – Newly Redone

      The seminal work of Harold Lamb, which I have often spoken about, being as it is possibly my top book of the literal thousands I have read, and certainly within the top 3, is now available at my E-book store for the modest price of £8.50, and includes an introduction I wrote that explains why I think this work is so important. If it were up to me, it would be required reading in school.

      At any rate, you can now get it in various E-book formats, and in a few days, once the process has completed, it should be available as a hard cover version which should sell at $35.00

      I have painstakingly made sure all the original illustrations are within the book too, and in the approximate locations they are found in the original as well.

      I hope you enjoy it, and I will announce when the Hardcover version is available on Amazon too.

        A Strange Hope

        UPDATE: One of my biggest detractors sent me a link to this video where the Bill Brockbrader guy is said to be a complete fake and worse, a pedophile. I didn’t do any research on Bill, and as I said in today’s stream, I was never a fan of Kerry Cassidy, so I don’t know what’s real or not, but I do know that Kerry Cassidy did interview a bunch of people that are clearly frauds. Whether she is involved and knows or not about Bill Brockbrader being a pedo etc, I don’t know. At any rate, the short and the long of it is this:

        1. If Bill is a pedo, he deserves to be burnt at the stake regardless of whether his story is fake or absolutely real. My stance on that will never change, if I become Emperor, burning pesos at the stake will be the first law I resurrect and put in place.
        2. Even if everything Bill says is a lie, which is entirely possible, my personal data points regarding not just Looking Glass, but the reality of precognition, telepathy, the effectiveness of prayer, the aether, the work of Harold Aspden and so on remain valid, and I came up with those long before I ever heard of Bill or Looking Glass. So the overall theme of this post remains unchanged other than for the point that you can eject everything related to Bill.
        3. The overall theme of keeping a faithful belief in the good and our being able to reach it is important and I have personally lived through the reality of this for decades, so the baseline message does not change either, and neither does the possible route I present of how we might get there in real time.
        4. The guy in the video says Crenshaw the one-eyed politician is a guy who will get the truth out there… and on that basis alone, his own ideas become somewhat suspect to me.

        As always, we can conclude a few things either way.

        First of all, listen to everyone but always make your own mind up, that has always been my advice in life to literally everyone and isn’t going to change.

        Secondly, don’t sweat the enemies you have in life, sometimes they unintentionally prove useful in their efforts to criticise you.

        Thirdly, even if you remove the entire Bill Brockbrader stuff and indeed the whole Looking Glass stuff from this post, the overall message does not change, because as I tried to point out at the start it’s based on physics. Physics very few people know about and even less people understand fully, but actual physics nonetheless, and the metaphysical aspects are actually also supported by this physics. Nevertheless, it is important to keep things straight, so you need to be aware of the critique.

        This is gonna be a weird one, and if you are not familiar with some of my theories on physics and metaphysics, you might even go on to think it’s unhinged. Those of you who have used the Search Me function on the right and typed in key words like Maxwell, aether, Peter Garajev, solitonic waves, and Harold Aspden, might at least give me the benefit of the doubt.

        Paradoxically, so might those few of you that have read my pen and paper Role Playing Game: Surviving the Current Zombie Apocalypse.

        After describing the situation for that game, marginally more dystopia than the present day, I had a section titled Light at the beginning of the Tunnel.

        It read as follows:

        The current situation is undeniably bleak. However, there are at least three separate scenarios that give us hope that there is not just a way to survive the current times, but to get out of them in a way that will provide an awakening of conscience and empathy that will render the Earth much closer to a paradise than it has ever been. Personally, I presume this will take place only after all the evil responsible persons involved have been hung by the neck to the nearest lamppost or burnt at the stake as the demonworshippers they are,[1] but some may have more optimistic views. In any case, I present them here as a way for you to have a clear sight of the fact that all is, most assuredly, not lost. Nor must you ever act or believe as if it is. 


        [1] After a fair trial by the Holy Inquisition, of course. 

        The three settings were, in turn:

        The End Times (really only “good” if you’re a Sedevacantist Catholic of absolute Faith AND are really prepared and really lucky), The Not Quite End Times (really not fun, but you might survive if you are, again, a Sedevcantist Catholic, prepared, lucky and dangerous), or… Looking Glass.

        Which I copy below in full for your edification.

        Looking Glass: For those of you who harbour a hatred of religion, were raised on the Kool-Aid of I Fucking Love Science! Faceborg Groups Idiocy, or possibly were molested by a Novus Orco or Protestant “priest” and thus have resolved to drive a stake through the heart of anyone professing to be a Christian, or, yet again, are simply agnostic and have not yet found an overarching truth about the intelligence behind creation that cold logic and basic math indicate must exists,[1] this may be the most interesting perspective yet. 

        In the early to mid-1990s there were various “disclosures” about all sorts fantastic things. 

        Satanic ritual abuse of children was one of them. The Franklin scandal got swept under the carpet as magistrates, Judges, Police, Politicians and wealthy elite were all involved. Then it was relegated to the fevered imaginings of… you guessed it: Conspiracy Theorists. As were the scandals involving most of the Belgian parliament in a child sex trafficking ring. And the one involving most of the British Parliament and all of the BBC with Jimmy Saville at its centre. 

        There were UFO disclosures. There were Alien Hypothesis disclosures. One guy with an Italian name even released a book called The Face on Mars that posited, from a coldly scientific perspective, the idea that Mars had been destroyed by an interplanetary war and the survivors had been worshipped as Gods and Demigods on our Planet. 

        Various military or supposed military experts were crawling out of the woodwork discussing everything from Roswell to secret Nazi bases in Antarctica and weird genetic experiments. All, of course, were conspiracy theories

        There was a lot of information about HAARP, and Chem Trails, and MK Ultra, and the CIA, and gun running, and cocaine. All conspiracy theories. Even when they turned out to be true. 

        And mostly, they all turned out to be true. 

        At any rate, one of these conspiracy theories was about something called Looking Glass. The premise was that a system of quantum computers as well as possibly some paranormal technology linked to precognition had been created to predict various possible outcomes of the future. 

        One such military contractor that was involved with the project became a whistle-blower and stated that the powers that be that got the reports on the possible outcomes, which we can assume today are synonymous with the Evil Ones, had become very worried. 

        Apparently, no matter what scenario they presented to the Looking Glass technology, a result always came back that they would lose control of the sleeping, teeming masses of humanity. No matter what they did, there was a Great Awakening of consciousness coming and nothing could stop it. No matter what wars, or economic crashes, or diseases, or misery or other technology they would release, the end result would always be the same. An enormous shift in human consciousness that would result in unparalleled freedom for every human being on Earth. This was, as I say, the early to mid 1990s. 

        The whistle-blower described it as a chess game between two masters that both realised one player would win. It was inevitable, but the game was not yet over. The only options open to the losing player was to either resign now, or try and play every possible delaying move to the end even though the outcome was a foregone conclusion. This way the loser could cause as much damage and take as many pieces as he could off the eventual winner. 

        Some 30 years later, the Looking Glass project would seem to be playing out its death throes. Keep in mind that the UN Agenda 2021 and 2030 which outlined much of the events that started to take place in 2019, were supposed to take another decade to play out. And now it had all been ramped up suddenly. Making all the puppet governments, especially of the Western world, dance like monkey in so obvious a fashion that even many of the people of average intelligence began to see through the cracks. 

        Why the sudden warp-speed on the serum to every man woman and child? So rapidly introduced that the massive death they caused was eventually impossible to hide. Once everyone knew a few friends and relatives dropping dead of serum shot “complications,” which were really the designed and intended consequences, the medical establishment would cover up for it, along with the perennial mouthpiece of the indemoniated, the Mass Media. 

        Still, over time, the amount of people dying after taking the serum shot became so pronounced it started to affect national statistics. And the news was not good. The higher the percentage of the population that took the serum, the higher the overall mortality rate. The serum was deadly to young, healthy people, not just the elderly and it was sterilising to the females. 

        But despite all the damage the forced serum mandates were causing, if Looking Glass was not just a fable, no matter what they do, they will, in the end, lose. So, you just have to hold out long enough. Just like in the other two possibilities above. 


        [1] Seriously, the million monkeys on a million typewriters theory is abject nonsense. Do the actual math. There is a better chance of the Sun blinking out to the other side of the universe and back every time you snap your fingers a million times in a row than the universe being created by random chance. There is just not enough time in the created Universe for it to have happened. It’s not even a stretch. It’s just flat out impossible. 

        Here is the Youtube video where this came from. The stuff about Project Looking Glass starts at about 1 hour and 55 minutes in or so. But I would go in at about 1 hour and 47 minutes and listen to ten minutes before looking glass starts too. It’s worth it.

        This interview was done in January 2012, and given he is first discussing things I absolutely am sure are real (space fleet, bases on Mars and the Moon, and so on) and I have been writing about since the mid 1990s, I find him fairly reliable and not crazy, and he does not appear insane to me either. Whatever you do, listen at least to the very last minute of this video too, it may be the most important bit of all.

        But all this is preamble to my point.

        From a “miracle” perspective, sure, anything can happen. From an End Days perspective, Jesus will come back on a white horse and trample all the bad guys. Ok.

        But from a purely secular perspective, assuming what we are actually going towards is The Not Quite End Times and project Looking Glass and the event that the bad guys can’t avoid is the Great Awakening, instead of their planned Great Reset Dystopia, what would that look like? What set of circumstances might make such a supposed new age of prosperity, peace and goodness happen?

        And to answer THAT question, I thought of a few possible things that could or maybe need to happen for such a situation to take place.

        So… crazy introduction to the topic? Absolutely, but bear with me…

        One thing that I think the Globohomo Pedovores have utterly miscalculated on, is that their desperate attempts to remain in control, have tragically backfired.

        Any of us that have a functioning brain and kept at least half an eye on things have known since 2014 that the Usual Suspects wanted to destroy Russia via Ukraine “regime change”. And that Ukraine had zero chance against Russia in 2020. And shortly after the SMO started, that NATO and America too, also had —and continue to have— no chance against the Russia/China block.

        But did you have “Israel tries to wipe out Palestine at the end of 2023” on your bingo card?

        And Houtis with the equivalent of TL7 technology are crippling the US/Israel empire/alliance of TL9 military (Tech Level is a term from the Traveller RPG)?

        So… how does the current atmosphere that is being daily fomented towards fear, hatred, chaos, starvation, economic collapse, and so on make you think we are heading towards?

        Now, according to Bill Wood (real name Bill Brockbrader) what you ultimately really believe in your heart of hearts tends to become reality. I have had this sense internally, very strongly since I was a child.

        [This is where the metaphysics, solitonic waves and so on comes into it… in other words, it’s not about me and my important feelings… it’s about how the vary foundations of reality work]

        I was not worried in 1986 when the various predictions of the End of the World —supposedly based on Nostradamus— were prevalent. Nor when the Y2K catastrophes were being stated, or the 9/11 tower attacks by the deep state and blamed on the phantomatic Muslim terrorists happened, and even when the more recent Covid bio-engineered scam for the use of deadly genetic serums, did not concern me too much.

        The fact is, that even BEFORE I became a hardcore Catholic with a strong faith, I have ALWAYS had a sense inside of me that whatever apocalypse comes my way, I am simply NOT the type to go quietly into the night. And if there is any type of possibility of survival, I am very likely to make it and then even thrive.

        AFTER my becoming Catholic, it is an absolute reality that my faith has been tested in the scariest, most painful, deep ways. And while I at times wondered if I could survive some of these events, the reality is that it has increased my personal faith in a good outcome to a level that a few years ago I would have thought of as being not accessible to human beings, or at least certainly not to me, mere mortal.

        So, while I already had the mindset that Bill Wood/Brockbrader mentions in that last minute of video above, and I would have had it regardless of me ever being aware of anything he discussed, project Looking Glass, or anything else, and while I absolutely advise you to have the same attitude, to reject the fear they are bombarding you with daily and the anger they try to provoke in you second by second, I also wanted to point out, what I think might happen in the worldly world of things.

        What would happen if one of the Arab countries around Israel decided all of a sudden: Screw this. Let’s wipe out the Jews.

        America, driven by the Jews who run it, would undoubtedly launch warships, planes, bombing campaigns… but… if they shrink from using nukes, there is just no boots on the ground they can place in that area of the world that would be effective at all. The US with a scant half-million soldiers or so, can’t even muster enough active troops to take on Russia, much less China, and not the Arabs in the Middle East either.

        And if they did use nukes, it’s very likely Russia would too. And given the Americans literally have nothing that can stop the Russian hypersonic missiles, it would mean that in a nuclear war America is not quite as “safe” on the other side of the Atlantic as it might think. Especially since the Russians have already floated a few Russian nuclear subs along the USA’s coastline in a not too subtle silent statement that said: We can nuke you in your home too.

        But in any case, the Americans simply don’t have the numbers for a land war in the Middle East.

        Even if they brought the draft back, who would actually obey it?

        And the soldiers they DO have now are partly MS13 Mexican gangs looking for citizenship, soyboys that will melt in the sun, trannies and homosexuals whose main aim in life is to get “shot” into daily, but would also get shot into out there in a far more penetrating experience they bargained for, and sub 85 IQ grunts that will likely cause more “friendly fire” deaths than enemy casualties.

        And if one Arab country decides to go all in at Israel, the other Arab countries might join in too, logically assuming that the fastest they wipe out Israel from the map, the sooner the “Americans” have nothing left to fight for. And if the Arab world wipes out most of the Jews in Israel, and the truth about the various practices of those people comes more and more to light, as it has been doing for the last four months, other people around the world, be they Muslims or something else, might decide the time is ripe for solving the “Jewish Question” once and for all.

        And if most of the Jews on the planet get wiped out, it is a virtual certainty that it will not happen bloodlessly or easily, or that it would be fun for pretty much anyone, but… if it happens, a lot of the puppet-masters of the American deep-state, and therefore also of the various European satrapies on a leash too, would begin to no longer have anyone on the other end of the leash.

        Concepts like usury and fiat money might begin to be questioned in light of the sudden vacuum created by the bloody removal of a people that historically have created both of those mechanisms. And with those questionings might come the swing of the pendulum in the other direction on a lot of other things. Feminism, Transgenderism, the whole LGBT agenda, child trafficking, the reinstatement of the death penalty for various crimes and so on.

        In short, the bloody and ugly wars/genocides and so on that may happen and that potentially could start tomorrow and be sudden and drastic beyond anyone’s imagination, could lead to a situation where nations return to being ethnically simple. Germans in Germany, Russians in Russia, and possibly even Venetians in Venice and Scots in Scotland, and so on. And such nations, unhampered by artificially created debt, with a reset of the very concept of fiat money, and a festooning of lampposts with current politicians, making way for less corrupt, WEF lapdogs, the Klaus Schwabs, Bill Gates, and so on of the world cemented permanently into their expensive underground bunkers, might very well begin to create a prosperity and human progress hereby unseen yet. And it would be founded on the creation of wealth based on the production of each man and nation, instead of the creation of a debt to serve, by each man and nation.

        If that happened, if we didn’t already have bases on the Moon (I am sure we already do) we would put some there within a decade.

        In short, a nasty, vicious, brutish war that no one expected, might wipe out Israel and the diaspora, and global financing and all things relating to the very concept of wealth and money and how it works, might just get redefined almost overnight. Other professions that would be almost instantly affected too would be politicians in general, the mass media, journalists and so on. In countries where honest but terrible men (because willing to do the unpleasant tasks of taking out bad people) came to power, journalists, lawyers, corrupt judges and so on, would be swinging right next to the politicians in rapid succession.

        So, given the above, it would certainly begin to look like The End Times, but then it would revert, and a decade or two later it may very well come close to a paradise on (and off) Earth, meaning it was only The Not Quite the End Times.

        So, anyway, that’s my take on a possible outcome that in a decade or two might make life on Earth a lot nicer than it is now, but also a lot nicer than it has ever been in the entire history of our species that we know about.

          Life’s Biggest Paradox

          The recent posts on IQ, the intelligence gap, etcetera on Vox’s blog and his Sigma Game one too, along with a number of other recent considerations I have been mulling over with regard to the general malaise of this planet’s humanity both as a whole and as considered in their multiply fractal subdivisions right down to the individual, have got me to a point where I may begin to try to articulate a concept that I have been living with most of my life.

          In simple terms it goes something like this:

          Broadly speaking, almost nothing is really relevant, and yet, your life is absolutely relevant (regardless of whether you are aware of it, reach anything like your full potential in various facets of life and so on).

          If you have read my post on violence and gunfights, you may be able to better understand what I mean. The long and the short of that post was that pretty much 95% of everything related to those two topics (assault/violence/gunfights) that you come across is bullshit.

          The fact is that even if you train obsessively, unless you kinda go looking for it, the likelihood of you being in an actual gunfight are pretty close to nil. The chances of you being in some violent altercation are somewhat higher, but you can mostly negate those by the simple expedient of increasing your situational awareness in general even if you take zero time training in martial arts or using a firearms under stressful situations.

          In the event that you DO end up in a gunfight, again, most of all the detailed supposedly pivotal information provided by armchair and paper experts, but even, too often, by supposedly highly trained “operators” is, again, mostly almost entirely irrelevant. If you can operate your weapon effectively under duress and hit a head-sized object repeatedly at twenty feet or less almost all the time, you are in the top 0.1% of people when it comes to being effective in a gun fight. The calibre or type of gun you use being a minor consideration at best.

          Now, extend that sort of general realisation to pretty much everything else.

          Unless you are in Ukraine or Gaza, the wars in those places are essentially mostly irrelevant to you. Not completely of course, because your petrol and heating costs go up, and so on, but the impact is not immediately drastic for 99% of the population on Earth compared to those who are actively involved. If you are generally prepared for the apocalyptic economic collapse that maths says will happen at some point, you are well ahead of the curve with respect of most of the rest of humanity. Obsessing about every detail of those conflicts can only lead to added anxiety and lowered immune systems without providing you any further benefit.

          Given this overall philosophy, life could easily become seen as a futile exercise and one could easily slip into depression. That too is a trap, because while it is true that 95% of literally everything is bullshit, there is that 5% that makes it all worth it. And it would do so even if it was only 1%.

          I always excelled at my job when I was in the corporate rat race and outperformed every financial target that was expected of me, even in those jobs where I was ultimately fired. And yes, I was “let go” on a number of occasions. And an even higher number of times I walked away on my own. How is it possible, you say that I double the expected profit margins and yet get “let go”? I must be lying, or missing out some part of the story, right? Not really. The only part of the story I am missing out is that several times I uncovered either outright fraud or incompetence within the higher ups. I didn’t even make it public for the most part, but the higher ups were aware I was aware. And they were also aware I was not corruptible. The idea a person would not either join them nor be against them necessarily, threatened them instantly (which is understandable).

          My work in the UK was never seen by me as a “career”. If I had viewed it that way and applied myself that way, I would undoubtedly be a very wealthy person. That route however would have required a level of internal repression of my basic nature that made the prospect absolutely intolerable to me. I simply saw it as a job. In fact, as a job with a specific firm that would last as long as it lasted. Several years in the best cases, a few weeks in the worst cases. When I did my job, I did it very well and I put as much effort into it as needed to ensure I did outperform every target they had for me. I could do that precisely because it wasn’t that important to me. I am honest and I was hired to do a job so I did it well, but the job itself was not particularly interesting or meaningful to me. I took my satisfactions where I could and so on, and it’s nice to have a nice portfolio of prestigious jobs behind me, but I was perfectly happy being a mercenary that understood the value of both being a team member in a good team, or working independently when required.

          I mention this to try and explain the perspective that most of life is filled with irrelevancies. Even the big events, while meaningful to you and some certainly will feel or even be life or death events from your perspective, are ultimately, in the scheme of things, not all that big a deal.

          Your divorce and family implosion is a huge deal to you and your children, of course, and yet, most divorces are survived somehow. The culture is going to crap mostly everywhere, and yet you are generally comfortable enough as the world goes to Hell in a handbasket. From a bird’s eye view, very few things matter, and those that do are often things most people have very little control over.

          So, if you have this perspective, I wanted to share with you my method for absolutely avoiding nihilistic despair, because I see people, especially younger people, falling into this absolute trap of thinking that since life is so “bad” nothing really matters. That is a mistake, a big, big error and one you should never make.

          So here is my recipe:

          • Never, ever, assume the global is the personal and vice versa
          • Find the level of “resolution” that is important to you for different aspects of life and operate there. For example:
            • My professional work was relevant to me as maybe an 8 bit grayscale arcade game. You can still enjoy it and do well at Prince of Persia in monochrome, but you will not cry tears of despair if you need to switch to another 8 bit monochrome game like Bubble Bobble.
            • My personal life was always in full 8k colour and maximum level graphic card importance to me, though it had many facets and perspectives and within it each facet and perspective had a generally high level of resolution but not all had the highest resolution setting.
          • Have a compelling future. Without a target, something to aim for, an idea that motivates you to get out of bed in the morning, life can be misery, so, create something to work towards. And yet…
          • Be flexible in the extreme towards that future goal, because life invariably will throw monkey wrenches, the whole monkey, and the whole monkey’s troop with their monkey wrenches and also a few grenades in whatever plan you make. Life is essentially war, and as Clausewitz supposedly said, no plan survives contact with the enemy. This does not mean you are a butterfly with never solid targets, but rather the opposite, that whatever happens, and whatever route-changes you need to make, including drastic ones, you nevertheless continue heading towards the same goal from whatever unlikely position you end up finding yourself. The truth is that many high-minded concepts are usually extremely unlikely to happen in one or even two years, but relentless action in a specific direction almost always produces effective results over say 20 years.

          I can attest to that “20 years” concept in a number of fields, where my interest was always high. In some cases I achieved a level of understanding or competence that then resulted in me deciding I had achieved what I wanted in that respect and then moved on to other interests, and in some cases the interest remains or even deepens and will continue to do so until death. A few examples (not to boast, but to give examples to those who might be new readers here as the numbers increase regularly):

          • Astronomy – I figured out the real history of Humanity to a previously unrealised degree, what happened on Mars and probably in other places of our Solar system to a degree that everyone else is still catching up to, including those who admitted plagiarising some of my work. I have reached a level of understanding of this that is sufficient for me to not devote much time to it now, primarily because my children and other endeavours occupy me and interest me more. Left to my own devices in a bubble universe, I would probably continue to explore this topic endlessly. And I still dream of building my own mini observatory.
          • Martial Arts – At age 54, and with a farm to try to get into some if not profitable at least break-even production level, 5 children and other things to do too, my interest for physically training with other people is not zero, but again, other priorities come into effect. If I won the lottery tomorrow and I could have my own little dojo build next to the house, I would happily entertain regular training with others, preferably not as teacher (unlikely, given the location) or at least, if I am to teach, so that I can also train with the guys while doing so. But as it is, my training today is mostly along a different route, which involves more generic concepts, like overall health, situational awareness on a daily basis and weapons training.
          • Catholicism – Having been a Zen Agnostic until age 43, so given only some ten years of study on it, I am still a relative “novice” at being a Catholic (compared to my own somewhat obsessive-compulsive standards, though I surpass many supposed “professional” theologians at understanding the dogma, application of it, history and realities of Catholicism) and the lessons in it, like those of martial arts, are infinite, so I think in some way this topic will continue to deepen for me with time.
          • Hypnosis – Having done and studied this deeply for nearly 20 years now, this remains a fascinating topic, though in deepening it, some related aspects have probably taken a front-seat, even if directly related to hypnosis, like the neurology and physiology of the brain as well as aspects of the mind, electromagnetic fields we all have, and other aspects related to mirror neurones and so on, all fasciante me and continue to be of interest.

          Those are just my “hobbies” so to speak, my most important topics relate to relationships with women and ultimately marriage, relationships with my children, and loved ones, and relationships with my friends and the things we can achieve if we work together on some things we care about.

          I certainly am not short of things that keep my interest despite me being acutely aware of the hellscape we live in and the mutant wastelands we are surrounded by, with roaming radioactive mutants, polluted skies and rabid zombies, along with gay, mentally ill, would-be “overlords” that want to destroy people like me down to the very last DNA strand.

          Before I was Catholic I kept myself busy this way and never fell into despair. After becoming Catholic, not only is despair impossible, but I am at times mildly euphoric as I recognise that however hard things may temporarily seem from any given perspective of the day, eventually, due course, whether I see it myself with my own eyes or not, victory, for our side, is absolutely inevitable.

          I hope therefore, to have given a few of you reading this some positive concepts to think and act on.

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