Likewise, I'm a post war baby, dragged kicking and screaming from my grannie's
arms when our father finagled a job in Canada working on the Avro Arrow
project, and we had to trail after him to this godforsaken country.
I like your stories Mr. Rankine.
Cheers to you and the missus. I'm off to stir up mischief.
Mags
On May 21, 2017, at 2:27 PM, douglas rankine (Redacted sender
"douglasrankine" for DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Mags Lucas,
Yes it certainly is. I never dreamt that when I left Scotland in 1964, and
hitch-hiked down to London with 50 quid in my pocket, when I was 19, that my
life would change so much. I was born just after the end of the Second World
War. Rationing was still in place, there were shortages of everything, no
fridge, no television, no washing machine; no central heating, no heat
insulation and some of the coldest worst winters on record. All we had was
just a radio, energy busting light bulbs, coal fires and a bath once a week.
Luckily, my father was in a restricted trade and we weren't short of money,
and we had a motor bike and sidecar which allowed us to travel all over
Scotland and England and Wales, before the mass tourist industry.
I feel very lucky to have enjoyed such a long and pleasant, comfortable,
challenging, though interesting life, to have worked at so many different
trades; and to have travelled to so many different countries of the world
over the years, and met so many different kinds of people from so many
different cultures; and had such happiness and contentment with the love of
my life, Jennie for over 50 years.
Age of course brings its problems, but retirement is such a boon, and we are
able to do so much that we couldn't do before. And the internet and the
World Wide Web is the greatest thing since the invention of the computer.
What a wonderful learning and educational resource...despite its bad
bits...:-). What a pity that the vast majority of those billions of folks in
the developing world have never been given the chance to see and do as me
missus and I have done.
ATB
Dougie.
On 21/05/2017 17:31, Mags Lucas wrote:
Dear Mr. Rankine,
Isn't it interesting to have lived long enough to see such remarkable
changes?
The difficulty arises when legislators wish to enshrine the rights of one
group at the expense of another. Currently, Bill C-16 (just finished a round
of testimony and questions in the senate standing committee on legal and
judicial affairs, is an example) The language of the bill is imprecise
rendering the Bill incoherent.
It will likely pass anyway.
Cordially
M. Lucas (ret)
On May 21, 2017, at 1:06 PM, douglas rankine (Redacted sender
"douglasrankine" for DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear Mags Lucas,
see url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Like_Me
I don't really know what transgenderism or transracialism are...or is it,
is... I neither accept or reject any of them, and there is no must about
it. Each to his or her own. Physical sexual attributes and actions, and
mental sexual drives, instincts, habits, tendencies, irresistible impulses,
or learned behaviour, can be produced or influenced by the genes or by
society or by the environment in which they live, or a mixture of all and
from what I have seen, they don't necessarily correspond or have to
correspond with one's sexuality. It is generally left up to the individual
to control these urges as best as possible, apart from children, who have
to be taught or to learn about how to control them; and the consequences
levied by society or the culture, tend to enforce the limits of the
aberrant behaviour.
The onset of puberty too, can bring about change of sexuality and
attributes and gender. Human beings are capable of all of them and putting
them into action. Pure man, if there is such a thing, is at one extreme,
pure woman is at the other. In between that lies a whole continuum which I
would call normal... The range of human sexual behaviours and responses is
very wide and encompasses many different behaviours, from copulation to
fondling to the use of violence or sadistic and masochistic behaviours, or
just talking in a certain way, acting in a certain way, or kindling and
developing fantasies. I believe that it is only human beings that can
become sexually aroused through fantasies or thinking about it, and not
animals, but I could be wrong. These behaviours can also be culturally
defined.
Encouragement in World War 2 by Stalin to his officers to turn a blind eye
to the rape of German women by Soviet soldiers, was a common theme both in
retaliation for what the German soldiers did to their people and to teach
the German women a lesson. War makes uncivilised behaviour lawful and
moral. The spoils belong to the victors. Most wars are like that, any
decency and morality or respect goes out the window. In Vietnam, the CIA
became the biggest creators, distributors and sellers of drugs in the
world. When the war ended, many Vietnam vets and their families and
ordinary US citizens suffered the consequences, and American society
finished up with a huge drug problem. World War 1 it happened too, rum and
punch. World War 2, Churchill was surprised at the speed at which the
Panzers mounted the Blitzkrieg. It was discovered that the German Army,
particularly the tank drivers were high on stimulants which kept them awake
for days.
I noticed, when I went to Scotland in the 1990s, to visit my father in
hospital, that there was a great debate going on about a man who wished to
have his leg amputated, for no other reason that he didn't like it being
attached to his body. It was functioning perfectly. He hated his leg. A
surgeon at the infirmary was prepared to do the operation, but the
management didn't want to allow it, not even if the man was prepared to pay
for it. Some people with this...I don't quite know how to describe
it...overwhelming feeling, get it so bad that they do it themselves and
self injure, or even threaten to kill themselves, the compulsion is so
great. It is right or wrong, do people have the right to do what they want
with their own bodies? I don't know, and I don't know if right comes into
it, but people can kill themselves and do so. Would it be against the
Hippocratic oath to conduct such an operation? I don't know...but it got
done anyway.
see url:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/625680.stm
I watched a programme once about a tribe of indigenous people who lived in
Yurts in Mongolia. Two things I noticed, one was that for some reason,
some boys were put through a gender change by their mothers, by being
dressed in girls clothes. The mothers wouldn't talk about why they did it.
The other thing was that when the film camera people came to interview the
mothers and children in the Yurts, if the boy children played up, became
naughty, the mothers would fondle their penises which immediately calmed
them down. I noticed it, but the film people didn't, or didn't say
anything about it. The consequences of such behaviour in our society is
abhorred and condemned and the legal penalties for it are very serious.
There was another case in the South Seas, Pitcairn Island, which made the
headlines...
see url: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103569364
Some people get a sexual kick out of mass rape or sexual torture. It
happens in both sexes and genders. Some folks get a kick out of watching
it. The World Wide Web was funded on such and similar sexual fantasies,
way back in the 1980's. Some folks had telephone bills of £300 a month
because their telephone kept kicking them out and they had to pay all over
again to get back to where they were. The ISP's made a packet out of the
practice, as did the telephone companies and the porn industry. In fact if
it hadn't been for the huge income derived from it, the internet would look
no where near as developed as it is now. I believe it was mostly men too,
who watched the stuff, and it catered for all sorts of sexual flavours and
tastes...still does.
If one presents oneself as something which one is not, and it gets
discovered, there are generally consequences. When people are deceived it
makes them feel victimised, bad, hurt, inadequate and stupid and they often
want to retaliate in some way. I have watched television programmes where
male transvestites have deceived other men who were presumably
heterosexual, into thinking that they were female. When the heterosexual
male found out that he had been deceived, and how he found out, it produced
an emotional response which was just as unpleasant, if not more so, than
the deceptive behaviour; often driving the heterosexual to violence. I
dare say that a woman and a man in the same circumstances, but the opposite
way round would have the same feelings.
The art and science of deception is not only prolific in nature, but
endemic, and not only pertains to spies and governments, but also to men
and women, throughout history and there have been many occasions when in
the presentation of one's credentials, whether it be aggrandisement of some
kind in the name of love; money, a home, a nest, or great sexual prowess
promised by either party, the remarkable rocket has turned out to be
nothing more than a damp squib.
I remember once, way back in the 1960s reading a book by an anglo-saxon
Catholic Priest who spent a lot of time darkening his skin, dying his hair
and curling it, and studying behaviours of the target Africo-American
community and went to live there with them for a while, to find out what
changes occurred in attitudes towards him from his own community. Very
interesting it was too. There has been a number of experiments carried out
by anglo-saxons in the US. However, I have been unable to find any
Afro-Americans who have decided to become anglo-saxon, by lightening their
skin and straightening their hair and see how the Afro-American community
treats them when it comes to getting jobs, promotion, education or equal
opportunities...
I hope this helps to clear the matter up a little, though I must say I
still don't understand what transracialism or transgenderism is and how the
argument is sound....?
ATB
Dougie.
P.S. What is the difference between a subject and an object? Just a
thought...:-)
On 21/05/2017 15:21, Mags Lucas wrote:
Hi mr rankine, The logic of her premise is sound don't you think? We must
either accept both transgenderism and transracialism, or neither of them,
since they both depend on subjectivity, inner feelings and so on.
Mags
On May 21, 2017, at 6:39 AM, douglas rankine (Redacted sender
"douglasrankine" for DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Mags,
I don't know what is sound about the argument...perhaps you could elicit
it more for me, so that I can understand and become enlightened.
A number of years ago, when my wife and I were living on the Isle of
Wight, a little island off the South Coast of England, we used to do a
lot of walking. One of our favourite walks was a circular one from our
home up to Culver Down and then down the Coastal Path and then along the
beach to Sandown, a local holiday resort, before returning to our home.
One day, about 10 years ago, on a Sunday afternoon, we had just had a
picnic lunch on Culver Down, and were returning along the Coastal Path
admiring the views. It was a sunny day, in early summer, not too warm,
not too cold. There was a lovely blue sky, with a light wind and the
white clouds were scudding across the blue sky, changing shapes...as they
do. As we meandered along we saw an object in the distance, sticking out
of the coastal heather, and on coming closer, we perceived that it was an
elderly woman, in her 60's or early 70's with silver curly hair, lying
flat on her back, perfectly still, wearing a long coat, nylons and black
brogue shoes. As we approached, we both stopped talking and just stared
and, as we passed by, we fell silent, though we both looked closely to
make sure that she was OK, and decided to ignore her as we didn't want to
disturb her. We could see that she was breathing, but she had her eyes
closed, and her skin colour looked OK...so we decided to walk on.
We got about a further 10 yards, when we both stopped and I said to me
missus, I think we should go back and check that the lady is alright, and
my wife felt exactly the same thing. Other people had passed her in the
meantime and they had all stared, but ignored her. We returned to her
and I went close to her and asked her if she was feeling OK. At first,
she ignored me, so I asked her a bit louder, watching her breathing and
her face and body for any signs of life, then she opened her eyes and
responded to me and sat up. She sat up, thanked us very much for
checking up on her and said that she had decided to have a sleep, as she
often gets tired whilst she is out walking, and then lay back down again
and closed her eyes. Me missus and I proceeded on our way.
Of course, this stimulated a whole lot of musings and discussion between
me missus and I, as I am sure you can imagine. All sorts of questions
went through our minds. After all, it was a strange situation, it was a
strange thing to do, what were her motives, was she really sleeping, was
she really tired, or was she just enjoying the moment and meditating with
the blue sky and white clouds, and green and purple and white heather as
her composition? Or was she playing a game with the passers by? Was she
seeking attention? Was she conducting an experiment, to find out what
people would respond to her situation and how they would respond, or how
many would respond? Was she checking out people's curiosity and had a
little curiosity meter secreted in her overcoat? We never found out.
We never saw her again, but we have often thought back to that day.
And another strange thing, and you can believe this or not, but the next
time we went that way, it was a showery day, and as we passed close by to
that spot where the lady had lain down, the sun came out and the most
beautiful rainbow appeared, and came close to us to almost the point at
which we could touch it.
ATB
Dougie.
P.S. And no, I didn't find a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow...and
did you know that rainbows are actually composed of more than 7 colours?
The 7 is a throwback to Newton who did a lot of work with light
refraction and a lot of work on religion, and it took 7 days to make the
world.
P.P.S. The scientists reckon, that cats cannot see a rainbow, because
the structure of their eyes are very different from us human beings. Be
that as it may, do rainbows really exist or are they a figment of our
imagination?
On 21/05/2017 00:52, Mags Lucas wrote:
It's a sound argument. The reaction after an assault by the
Transquisition was craven
On May 20, 2017, at 1:53 PM, douglas rankine (Redacted sender
"douglasrankine" for DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
see url: https://cryptome.org/2017/05/in-defense-of-transracialism.pdf
Definition of Race: I'm pink...therefore...I'm spam....:-)
ATB
Dougie.
