Robinhood app: investment vs gambling

The only real paradigm for investment is by creating a tangible product or service that people need, not one based on wild speculation for large profit through short-term gain and no effort.

A horde of small investors shocked the financial markets during a January 2021 investment spree, through the use of apps such as Robinhood and social media such as Reddit, to act as a mob investing in a failing company called GameStop. This action caused major losses against hedge funds, who had invested in a gamble that Gamestop shares would collapse; where simple market demand for the shares drove the share price up, and the hedge funds had to buy shares at hugely inflated prices at massive losses.

The result of stinging the hedge funds by a mob of individuals investing en mass at the same time was hailed as a success against the system and the elites; but there was no paradigm shift; the impact was temporary. GameStop shares became a bubble that quickly burst, and many of the crowd of gamblers suffered severe losses. The financial markets such as Wall Street are built around the paradigm of gambling, greed and short-term profits. The army of speculators became a mindless conformist group of slaves manipulated by a few people to act like lemmings making money for people such as Elon Musk, throwing money away they could not afford to lose. These gamblers supported the system they wanted to sting, motivated by the same greed, gambling and short-term goals as the hedge funds they despised.

These same speculators worship the rise of cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin, but fail to see the bigger picture that the currency has failed to meet the problem it was trying to resolve, as an alternative token of exchange to paper money for goods and services. Bitcoin has become a vehicle of speculation, where a few mystery players can manipulate the currency as they see fit; with people using the currency to speculate to make profit rather than use it as a medium of exchange. Bitcoin has become too unstable as a token of exchange, for due to the sudden rise and fall of Bitcoin, the price of a coffee in Bitcoin can rise in hours from three dollars to a hundred dollars. Criminals and terrorists love Bitcoin, as it is easy to move around and hide their activities; and the security of the internet makes it harder to defend against theft and fraud of Bitcoin, as opposed to standard paper currency.

The paradigm for investment has always been about creating a tangible product or service that people need, then using that as a trade in exchange for other goods and services. Example: I plant 100 apple trees, and get 1000 apples to trade with; I position 10 bee hives amongst the apple trees, the bees increase the yield of apples through pollination by 30%, giving me 1300 apples to trade with; each bee hive gives me a kilo of honey, so I have 10 kilos of honey to trade with. Whilst there is always an element of risk in any investement, the chances of getting success out of the apple-honey business is greater than following the crowd in mindless speculation.

Dealing with apple trees and bees is a lot of work, an ongoing process of trial and error, where the individual is working with something tangible to bring about something tangible. The hedge funds and the mob of gamblers have no interest in the investment paradigm of apples-honey, as they desire quick profits through little effort. It would take several years of hard work, with a lower yield to gain something from apple-honey ways of investing.

GameStop belongs to the paradigm of apples-honey, but it is no longer offering a product or service that people need, thus it is failing. GameStop provides a service of offering computer games in retail stores, a service people now obtain directly from internet downloads. The hedge funds and the Robinhood app horde were never interested in GameStop as a business, they invested in a gamble on shares, speculating on a rise or fall in those shares. Electronic currency such as Bitcoin, and finanical market shares, are vapid mental constructs, that have no tangible grounding in the real world, which is why people gamble on them. GameStop is a failing business, because nobody needs it’s product and service anymore, which is why it is dumb to invest in such a business.

On the religious hatred of Wilfred Wong and his supporters

On the matter of the religious hatred of Wilfred Wong and of his supporters, and of those who encourage the notion that kidnapping children is okay.

An image of me as a child around the time I was abducted, at an age much younger than the age of the boy allegedly abducted by Wilfred Wong. I know all the feelings that goes through the mind of a child experiencing an abduction. I am very triggered by the Wilfred Wong story; I am very angry. Does anyone consider the feelings of children when they support and encourge vigilantes to abduct children? Do they know what that does to a child?

In early November 2020 UK news media reported about the abduction of an eight-year-old boy in Wales UK where a certain Wilfred Wong was mentioned. The boy was said to have been allegedly abducted after leaving his school by a group of six individuals at knifepoint, bundled into a car, which was stopped by armed police 200 miles away near Milton Keynes. The obviously distressed young boy was returned back to his caregivers, whilst all six alleged kidnappers were remanded in jail on charges of kidnapping, with Wilfred Wong charged in addition with possession of a knife.

The mention of Wilfred Wong is significant, for he is a known religious fanatic who has dedicated his life to hunting Satanists and promoting the narrative of Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA). What is disturbing about Wilfred Wong is that he dumps so many religions into one basket, from Islam, to Paganism, to Wicca, under Satanism, which he defines as a worldview dedicated to ritually torturing, sexually abusing, murdering and eating children. Wong has called upon the UK Government to establish an official body with powers that the police, social workers and the courts answer to, in order to investigate anyone he thinks are Satanists (i.e. any religion not Christian) with view to SRA. Wong has also demanded that SRA be a crime in its own right with criminal penalties of life in prison or execution. Wilfred Wong believes he should head such a body, a sort of Spanish Inquisition run by Matthew Hopkins type of Witchfinder Generals.

To many, who do not subscribe to the religion of Christianity, the ideas and influence that Wilfred Wong carries must be somewhat disturbing. Wong is a trained legal barrister who has worked in the Houses of Parliament for Members of Parliament lobbying to advance many Christian causes such as against abortion and promoting a war on alternative religions under the guise of SRA. In the eyes of Wong, any pagan family who for instance go to Stonehenge for a Solstice celebration, is doing a Satanic ritual, and they, plus their children, must be subject of an SRA investigation. Without much of a track record of any accomplishment, Wong has emerged as the leading spokesperson on SRA in the UK with a growing following; and appearing on internet shows hosted by people such as Shaun Attwood that has boosted his public profile.

Within days of the arrest and placing on remand in jail of Wilfred Wong, pending a court hearing on 7th December 2020, the supporters of Wong were organising to free Wong and attempting to spin an alleged abduction of a child as a rescue from SRA. The pro-Wong campaign was given added momentum when one of the alleged kidnappers, Robert Frith, committed suicide by placing a plastic bag over his head. Lurid fictional stories were invented of Wong being castrated by inmates, and of Frith being murdered. Wong supporters pushed the very limits of contempt of court proceedings by speculation and background information about the child in the case. The supporters spun Wong as a hero, and a victim of injustice; creating petitions to President Trump to intervene in the UK justice system to free Wong. The prison where Wong was remanded was spun as a Satanic institution, and the police as Satanic agents of the Crown. Looking for a hate figure, the Wong supporters used the governor of the prison where Wong was remanded as their target of hate, and attacked his character, whilst harrassing staff of that prison.

Of great concern was the approval and justification to abduct the children of any family the supporters of Wong considered as being involved in SRA; for instance, if a child followed the pagan path, then without any evidence of abuse, the religious fanatic was entitled to kidnap them to “rescue” them from “SRA”. The idea that any suspected abuse of a child should be reported to the police for their investigation seemed a crazy notion to the Wong supporters. The religious supporters of Wong promoted an anarchic reality where a religious fanatic could act based upon an opinion without evidence to act as vigilantes with violence to take away children against their will from their families, with specific reference to those following a non-Christian worldview.

Of great fear to the critics of Wong was the attempt of pro-Wong supporters to turn the Wong issue into another Hampstead, where the father and anyone associated with him was spun as a Satanic cult, and the eight-year-old boy the new poster child for the global movement (QAnon) against SRA. Wong, who has no training or track record in dealing with child abuse, or any apparent children of his own, was a surprise figure to be involved in a legally highly risky alleged child kidnapping. Wong, who has claimed over two decades of experience of campaigning on SRA, has been unable to offer any evidence in support of his claims; draws one down a dark road as to what could have happened to this child, if the police had not intervened in rescuing the child from an alleged abduction.

Whilst legally one cannot speculate on the guilt or innocence of the charges the alleged kidnappers of the boy faces, the news media has indicated two will plead guilty; and one individual, Robert Frith, has considered his situation so dire as to end his own life. Whilst I have often entertained thoughts of bringing together a team to drag the child abuser and architect behind the Hampstead SRA hoax Abraham Christie back to the UK from Morocco to face justice, I am fully aware, despite my moral high ground and sense of justice, that if I did that, it would be difficult to fight off any criminal charges from the UK, Morocco or both from what would be a highly illegal operation. The sword works both ways, it is all very well those who promote the fiction of SRA spinning arguments to justify vigilante activity against those of alternative religions, but how would they like it if the alternative religions entertained similar thoughts and struck back at them? To be clear, there is a vastly greater track record of child abuse amongst the religion that Wilfred Wong and his supporters follow than of any other religions they target with religious hatred.

Despite what is a slow and frustrating legal process, often undermined and manipulated by those such as Wilfred Wong, it is only with an act of faith and will that I continue to play along with the legal process. It gets quite hard to sustain tolerance when one comes up against the pure religious hatred of those such as Wilfred Wong and their supporters, to constantly have to suffer this religious hatred without much recourse, and now a new horrifying face that religious fanatics are now allegedly abducting children based upon fictions of SRA.

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Creativity is the liberation of the hidden potential in things

I brought the potential of an oak tree out of an acorn.

Each year, I make a journey to visit an oak tree I planted over five years ago. This year, the oak tree is now taller than me, and will go on to become a major landmark as a great tree long after I am dead.

Did I create this tree? No. For the oak tree existed already in potential in the acorn. My part in the manifestation of this oak tree was to bring out the potential hidden inside an acorn of an oak tree. I planted the acorn, and looked after the little tree from the first unfolding of its leaves and roots, then planted the tree at the current location when it was three-years-old.

Something is never created out of nothing. If a substance has no potential for a something, then that something will never manifest. The acorn has the potential to be an oak tree, but will never be a living elephant. The process of creativity thus is about bringing out the hidden potential of things rather than creating something out of nothing. The creative person finds the potential, then nurtures that potential into being; this is the real creative process.

Towards a new reality

Our reality is shaped by our environment or by our own attitudes and deeds.

Reality as the individual knows it is shaped by self or by the environment.

Take the example of the agency of coronavirus upon the world. I discovered the joys of cutting my own hair, so I save £8 every month at the expense of a hairdresser. A printer friend of mine discovered that their online business boomed, and started to think they will no longer need their city centre shop, which has been closed due to lockdown. Due to stress, I quit as an administrator of a website, but have started thinking about how artificially intelligent entities might do a better job than a human could do to moderate internet sites. These are all small changes due to coronavirus, which when multiplied, brings about a tsunami of change in the world.

There are many who hang on to the previous pre-coronavirus normal, and will fail. Bars are set to reopen in the UK; but they will fail, because people come out to bars for the experience, and the queues, inconvenience, plastic barriers, gloves, masks and social distancing destroys the experience, and they will not return. The coronavirus has fallen away in US states such as New York, but is surging in Florida; the virus is collapsing in the UK, but is rising in India, Mexico and Brazil. Europe is talking about restricting travel from the USA to Europe.

Coronavirus is not the only agent of change in the world. President Trump will increasinly be the source of ripples of discord for all the months running into his November election. China, burnt by coronavirus, is increasingly warlike with Japan, India and Hong Kong. Locusts eat their way through the Middle East and Africa, leaving millions at risk of starvation. And, Siberia, with record temperatures, echo the global drum of significant global change.

But self is also the agent of change in self, and the greater world. I choose to drink more water, and to take up tai chi. I have lost all interest in being entertained by media. Small changes that impact my body, my mind, and then the world through me.

Here are a few final thoughts. Our thoughts, deeds and experiences shape our reality; we are the sum total of all that has gone before us. All change in the world starts with self.

A life goal can provide stability in times of fast change

By finding their life goal and then pursuing this goal, the individual can find stability in a world of turmoil and uncertainty.

The death of Vera Lynn this morning in Britain at the age of 103, marked the transition of my country from a time of certainty and stability to one of unpredictability and confusion. Lynn represented what was the blitz spirit of Britain that faced down Nazi Germany, when it had empire and a proud knowing of its place in the universe. I live in a time when I am unsure what Britain is anymore, where there is nothing to hold onto that defines my sense of Britishness. I sense that this existential crisis may exist across many nations of the world, where the citizen, in the age of global branding such as Facebook, Nike and Coca-Cola, has had their sense of national identity stripped by superficial cultural garbage.

The philosopher Heraclitus says that all of nature is in constant motion and change; which is to say, that the only constant in life is change. The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius observes that events in life and history repeat; today, we have a global epidemic of the coronavirus, in the time of Aurelius the Antonine Plague was ravaging the Roman Empire.

Despite the ideas of constant change and repetition of events, there is an understanding that in these cycles, the pace of change is slow and fast. Vera Lynn might represent to me a time of slower change, but Brexit represents a period changing at a faster pace. Indeed, the speed of change in the world, has made it so confusing and distressing for me, I have a major reluctance to follow the news anymore.

Even as the world moves forwards at a frentic pace, the individual has the refuge of self to turn to, which moves at a calmer pace. The individual can find stability and calm in the storm by reference to their internal self. The individual ages, but feels the same as they did as when they were younger: their heart beats the same; their lungs fill with and expel air; their brain fires, leading to thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius suggests that the individual ceases worrying about the world; to find the goal in life of why the self exists; and then to focus all resources and life to that goal. In embracing and manifesting the goal, the individual finds stability in the goal of their life.

An individual can replace lost money or shoes, but time is unreplaceable. An individual has a finite amount of time of life in their body, just as Vera Lynn was allocated 103 years of time. Too many people waste time worrying about things they have no power over: such as coronavirus; or over matters such as Donald Trump, who will vanish into history one way or another, like so many leaders like him in the past. So, by giving time to things that are irrelevant, the individual sacrifices a finite resource – time – which could have been better spent on the goal in their life.

It is my view that the goal in life becomes the rock pillar of stability in periods of confusing change. The goal gives a sense of purpose and meaning in life, which makes a life worth living, regardless of what the world is doing. Even if Britain or the world has lost all meaning, the goal provides a constant source of meaning to the individual who finds and pursues their life goal.

Everything is a story

Walking and observing, the individual can learn about the elements and relationships between those elements to understand the story of things. This Woodland anemone tells me the woodland is ancient; and the time of year is spring, before the first leaves appear in the woodland trees. Understanding the story, the individual gains the power of storytelling; and the ability to be the master rather than the slave to stories.

One of my skills is that I am a storyteller. I research an area of interest, then I communicate my learning to others in the form of a story.

The story is a system of of patterns that form and transform patterns in the mind of the reader or listener of the story. The story encodes ideas, and the relationship between ideas, in an understandable way to be easily assimilated in the mind of others. This is why story has been a common tool by which people transfer information from one generation to the next since ancient times.

The story appeals to all levels of the mind: emotional; intellectual; sensory. Stories can influence the mind to motivate it to activity. Story can be used to start wars, movements and change the way people think.

The individual can observe and identify the hidden agenda behind the story; for there is always a purpose behind a story, to have an effect on the mind of the hearer of the story. US President Trump recently used the story of linking elements together about the protesters against the murder of coloured people by the police: Antifa; terrorism; protesters. The story transformed protester into terrorist; the protests became terrorism; the police and army became the defenders of the USA crushing the enemies of the people. The story became dangerous, because it allowed the army and police to think of their own citizens as threatening objects to be crushed; to ignore the liberties written into law of the freedom to protest over violations of human rights such as the right of life of citizens.

All branding are stories designed to have an effect on a target group. The Black Lives Matter movement uses branding as a call to action against racism in culture. Statues associated with the oppression of coloured people are being removed worldwide; television programmes that depict minorities in a negative light are being cancelled and taken off air; people in power, who expressed any hint of racism, are being chased out of position; and the powers of law enforcement are being scrutinised and curtailed.

Storymaking begins by identifying the elements and the relationships between those elements in the story. To know the story of a woodland, I will walk in that woodland observing the animals, plants, geography; how those elements relate to each other. If I spot the Wood anemone, I know I am dealing with an ancient woodland of 300+ years of age; I know the time of year, for such flowers emerge in spring before the foliage of trees appear. If I spot Lesser celandine, I know that there is water in the area such as a spring, for these like damp habitats. Thus, I understand the story of the woodland, and I can tell stories about what I learned.

Knowing about the magic of storytelling, the individual gains the power to influence other minds; but also the ability to resist the influence of those that use story to achieve their ends. There is always a purpose behind stories; to identify the effect of the story upon the mind, is to become the master of the story rather than the slave.

Magick is creativity

This spider web is an act of creation by a living thing. The act of living is the ability to create this web, for if the spider cannot do this, it starves to death. Nature adds to this spider web new things such as water drops, to the mind of the observer, a beautiful creation. Magick is the ability to create.

I consider magick as creativity. This blog post is an act of creation. I put together letters to form words; words to form sentences; sentences to form paragraphs; and paragraphs to form the creation of a blog post. There is a kind of magick in this creative process to form an overall pattern out of letters and words, that has an effect on a reader.

Magick is all around us. It is an amazing thing to see when a thousand random people are dumped into a space, and they will like magick, self-organise into something intelligent without an external authority to direct them. This same self-organising principle applies to groups of atoms or ants. So, one can see that a chaotic system loves to self-organise of its own accord into something more complex. The process and the result of self-organisation is creative and magickal.

There is nothing hocuspocus about magick. The creative person can take a substance such as clay: and can convert this clay into a form such as a cup, brick or statue; each form with a different purpose; but retaining the same substance of clay. The creative person acts with knowledge and wisdom, understanding the nature or essence of the substance they work with: the clay can be molded when wet, but becomes fixed in form when dry; the nature of alder wood is never to decay in water, but becomes hard like concrete, making it suitable as foundations for harbours.

The creative person, as the magician, understands that something can only come out of a thing if there is potential for it. An elephant does not grow out of an acorn, for there is no elephant potential in an acorn. The creative magician discovers the potential possibilities of a substance, and liberates a potential out of it. The oak tree is liberated out of an acorn; a pile of wood is liberated out of an oak tree; a ship is liberated out of the pile of wood; an empire is liberated out of a ship. At the heart of this liberating process is the creative magician.

Magick is a process of action. Acorns must be planted in the ground; provided with water and light; for potential to emerge from them. Knowing the nature embedded in a thing, the magician liberates that potential nature out of the thing to become something more, by a process of active nurturing grounded in action. A plant grows larger by reason of the creative person actively feeding resources to it, mindful of avoiding extremes of the opposites: too much water, rots the roots; too much sun, burns the leaves.

To be alive, is to be creative. Those of the Left Hand Path embrace life, and thus creativity. By being creative, the LHPer is a magician.

The agents of chaos

Those of the Left Hand Path are the agents of chaos; standing at the edge of chaos; and they are the champions of what is just and good.

There are always at least two extremes in life. You know you have reached the first extreme when the police take it upon themselves to be judge jury and executioner. You then reach the other extreme when angry mobs loot the retail stores. Both extremes bring a sense of completeness of absolute stagnation or anarchy, where nothing can live or grow. Death rules over both extreme states.

Both extreme states bring about injustice: the police officer murders the citizen; a retail store owner loses their business. Thus, it is a struggle of justice against injustice, upon which a member of the Left Hand Path stands.

What is justice? The ancient Greek calls justice “becoming.” The Viking word for fate – “Wyrd” – also means becoming. Justice is the middle way between extreme states, the healthy mix between what disrupts against what reorganises. When Heraclitus says “strife is justice“, he means that there is a middle point between two opposites, that mix, join, and become something more. When one opposite is dominant in the extreme, there is no mixing, there is only a state of injustice, for nothing can become from it but the death of all things.

There is a scientific set of thinking tools called complexity theory. The world such thinkers say consists of systems of elements (objects) and relationships between these objects. Through these systems flow: information, patterns that influence the formation or transformation of other patterns; and energy, the capacity to create movement. Either what flows through these systems creates something greater than the sum of its parts (positive synergy) or disrupts the system (negative synergy). The point where systems break apart and reform into more complex systems, these thinkers call the edge of chaos. What emerges from the edge of chaos, they call emergence, which they define as becoming visible after being concealed. And becoming is justice.

The ancient philosopher Heraclitus says “Panta Rhei!” everything flows; strife is the agent and primary principle of change and motion; the unity of the opposites bring about justice and all good things. And thus, the point of two flowing opposites merge into a unity of opposites and justice. And when one opposite dominates, there is only injustice.

Those of the Left Hand Path stand at the edge of chaos – the agents of chaos. The LHPer are the agents of justice: the weavers of fate; the champions of what is good and just in the world. When the swamp stagnates, the LHPer releases a crocodile. At the point when two opposing armies meet, the LHPer builds a city; so the armies forget to fight, and trade instead.

Two faces of the same coin: the police officer that executes; the looter that burns the retail store. Police officer and looter are the same thing, absolute states of an opposite: lawful and unjust. Says Heraclitus: “The way up and the way down is one and the same.” Only where two opposites mix and merge into a unity of opposites at the edge of chaos, is there justice.

Thus the LHPer is different from the crowd, the lonely agent of chaos. The LHPer is at the meeting place of two opposites; as the crowd drowns their senses into the oblivion of one extreme opposite. The LHPer recognises the solution, and moves where the crowd does not. Then, as Heraclitus says, the LHPer is like a child leading the drunk (crowd) back home to what is just and good at the edge of chaos – an agent of chaos.

A step into the undiscovered country

The symbol of chaos. Those that identify with the Left Hand Path thrive and evolve in times of chaos.

Those that walk the lonely road of the Left Hand Path come upon a world that is uncertain, vanishing and unknown: the undiscovered country.

In recent times, I have come across some amazing announcements of technological breakthroughs: artificial neurons speaking to real neurons; insights leading to ability to alter spins of electrons; the creation of biological bots. The implications on the future of humanity from these few discoveries are beyond my mind to comprehend.

A virus during the first six months of 2020 brought the world to its knees. Coronavirus has paralysed the whole world, impacting every individual, business and community. Everything people took for granted became less sure: food; medical care; job; home; liberties; democracy; family; social activities. A little virus pulled away the veil of delusion, revealing: corruption; stupidity; inequality; hypocrisy.

Meanwhile, the climate change of 2019 continued its march across the world of 2020. The locusts on the move in Africa, Asia and the Middle East; eating their way across nation after nation. A once-in-a-decade storm in Australia. Broken temperature records and fires in Siberia.

In challenge, there is opportunity. People become lazy and stupid; but when challenges arise, the choice is to drown or swim. Thus, each individual faces the challenge to adapt, innovate and transform. It is the pattern of nature that those who are unable to evolve with change, become extinct.

Those of the Left Hand Path have been blessed with a toolkit of attitudes and skills to rise to the challenge in the undiscovered country. The LHPer is their own master in their own life; they take responsibility for their own actions, knowing they are the masters of their own success and misfortune. The LHPer thinks for themselves; they will see the traps that the conformist mob do not; and will innovate a solution based upon need and circumstance. The LHPer has the mental stamina to overcome setback and resistance; which breaks those too lazy, soft and stupid. In a time of great change, the LHPer is supreme.

Returning back to my LHP roots

This blog will now return to it’s Left Hand Path roots in future posts.

It is time to return back to my Left Hand Path roots on satanicviews.

I have missed exploring ideas and philosophy of the Left Hand Path.  So I intend from now on to give this blog over to writing once more on Left Hand Path themes.

My ongoing activity in relation to the fraud and false Satanic allegation making of Becki Percy has been moved to its own separate blog.  After this post, I won’t be mentioning Becki Percy on this blog anymore.  Please do visit the Becki Percy investigation blog and follow me there if you are interested in the ongoing project involving that Satan Hunting fraud.