The Jourrnal

History is His Story. It is an Account from God, incorporating both History and Prophecy, about the Universe and this Earth. The Bible, described by Apostle Paul as "The Oracles of God" is the principal source for this information. However, by observing things around and about us we can, by gaining understanding of what we see within the context of Biblical information, learn more about that 'Account'.

However, "the one thing we learn from History is that no one learns from History". Those are the words, slightly paraphrased, of the philosopher Hegel. Mr Santillana put it this way, "Those who do not study History are doomed to repeat its mistakes". This author is trying to disprove Hegel. He also disagrees on one point with Santillana. The mistakes in History are not repeats. They are discretely differemt mistakes. An explanation of that point is given in some of the Blessings in the Aleph-Tav Bible Study material.

The Journal will recount events and anecdotes from the life of the author that helped him arrive at the conclusions regarding History and Prophecy in the pages of his book1 and in the various documents that comprise the Aleph-Tav Bible Study Programme. They are garnered from matters arising in The Journey and The Job where they deviated too far from the main theme in those papers in addition to other matters that arose elsewhere.

The Maori account of Maui holding the sun and the moon in the sky above the land has its parallel in Joshua 10 and is an important issue in all this. I will deal with this more in The Journal. (Footnote 18 in The Journey).

The dispute about Lewis and Tolkien re allegory see page 5 first paragraph

The ceramic sequences and lecture by Dr Lockerbie and Sackler Colloquium. See The Journey ffotnotes 17 and 59 pages 6 and 25

There is quite a lot of under-the-bridge muddy-water to describe between 4AL and the end of High School but that may be better left for The Journal because of the primary purpose I have here for describing this Journey.

programme of extra-curricular activities we all had to be involved in at Maxandrew. Not allowed to play cricket and football. Had to broaden our minds with something more broadly cultural. The least bad alternative was the choir. So the school choir mistress was suddenly inundated with disinterested-in-singing refugees from the sports fileds

In that context, The Music teacher nearly catching me out with singing out of tune and the SS Anniversary nightmares having to sing s song in a quartet and the time I was itching all morning during the Anniversary service and my mother going berserk about it.

The Art Teacher at Macandrew:

The OU squash club was rolling in money as we hiked-up joining fees to restrict membership so that better players could get game time on the highly-popular courts. Consequently we ended up spending quite a bit of time, with some concern about being proper stewards, managing about $15,000 in short-term deposits at about 11% in the banking system. We could hardly spend the interest let alone the income or spare cash we had. The Students' Association was keen to get its hands on that cash but successive squash club committees, usually stacked with competitive tournament-
participating serious-players managed to keep the club independent and the courts reasonably free from hoi-polloi players. We were the most expensive club to join but our efforts at supply-demand management were poor. A member of the previous committee who later graduated in law and who urinated on a woman's coat in front of me at a rugby Test I attended at Christchurch organised to smuggle a bent billiard table into the upstairs louinge. Then some pest keot hounding the President, Treasurer and myself as secretary for payment.

Re the squash club should do a note about Heather Simpson.

Deacon at the local chirch and trying to balance church duties with university life at the religious movements CSM or EU and organising squash tournaments at weekends.

orthodontist regarding my 'wisdom teeth

I think this must have been the same area where Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his team had found meteorites. His expedition was as much scientific as a race to the Pole with Roald Ammundsen. In fact, the weight of these meteors in their luggage may have been a straw to break their backs in reaching their final hurdle and safety. The rocks were retrieved and went back to London. There is more to this story but I will leave that to The Journal.

Re-introducing Israeli Folk dancing to a kibbutz in Israel

I enoyed folk dancing at St Clair school but the other kids I think feigned disliking it. How I got involved in Israeli Folk Dancing is best left for The Journal but it was my aim, or imagination, to use it to get a pass into Israeli life. On this occasion, that policy certainly reaped a huge dividend.

Fn 41 from The Journey: I was looking pretty thin at the time and could not stand wearing suits or heavy clothing in the heat. With me looking a bit bedraggled, I suspect he thought I was at death's door. The Diabetes I was later diagnosed with may have kicked in by then; bit no one knows. In 1987 I had a thorough medical with Dr Crutchley for the American Embassy. But his survey which uncovered a "propensity for hernias" in my lower abdomen (think about the good doctor's name) either missed the Diabetes or the problem did not exist then. The Israeli Folk Dancing had solved the hernia problem which I had experienced many times over the years since starting to play Squash in circa 1970.

This is all tied up with early 20th Century British and American intervention in the Middle East. It raises issues about the book IBM and the Holocaust, WMD in Iraq and other things I will narrate in The Journal to the extent that I got involved in these issues or how they affected me.in Note 75 in The Journey. Also this comment from The Job after the interview with the Chief Policy analyst for DoC: "This was an interesting insight in the way governments operate from a wall-fly's perspective". That reminds me of the chat I had with a senior US official ("JR") in my Attaché's office regarding the operation of America's foreign policy (chemical weapons in Iraq) which I will discuss in The Journal.

Re meat Industry association: There is a major issue regarding the sheep industry's love affair with Islam in the 1980's but that will be discussed in The Journal. Refer also to fn 34 in The Job : "We will discuss some other events regarding the decline of the sheep industry and loss of that land to farming later to put this thing into a rarely discussed perspective."

The Thomas murder: From fn 62 in Journey Mr Eugene Thomas who about that time had been murdered in the Invincible Building just up the road was reputed to have been the founder of the Rosicrucians in Wellington.

From note 64 of Journey. "my US Embassy diplomat friends who often owned houses inside the 'DC Beltway' fared quite well on the whole in New Zealand. Although it did help that they got out into the more pro-American rural regions and amongst the farming fraternity whom I knew well of course. Mention the Rick Vallance US visa

incident.

From note 84 Journey: Many I attended, or dropped into, were mundane but in one there was a brief discussion about using the Tax Act to divert money from wealthy individuals' estates (personal fortunes at death) away from siblings, relatives or friends and towards the funding of science in the name of altruistic science for everyone's benefit. Of the ramifications of that I will narrate in The Journak.\\

From Note 70 in Journey: In 2007, on a brief visit to New Zealand from England, I attended an IPCC briefing in Wellington. Dr Wratt chaired that. I asked him about the lakes under Antarctica. He blatantly told me that there 130 of them. Asked why that was nt reported in the IPCC reports but he just shrugged his shoulders. I believe that information is very important in climate change or global warming discussions. In July 2014, I did find out from another NIWA scientist that the effect of the lakes is not expected to be material for another 500-70 years. That is nonsense too

So one of the secretaries, Shirani Visvanathan completed typing up the final report (APEC S&T Committee job I had). . Later, Shirani told me she got the unpopular jobs at the Ministry. She had become an Anabaptist Christian early on in her arrival at the Ministry. That raised a whole hornet's nest of issues.

Sir Solly Zuckermann, a former British Chief Scientist, was a cheat so he did not think New Zealand's Chief Scientist would be able to assist in any meaningful way on fish stocks and ...... reminds me to do stuff about Warren Youngs exercise for me re Lord Lindemann Foot note 91 in Journey

Pick up point in notes 93-4 of Journey re cause of global warming. The Earth seems incapable of reflecting excesses of solar energy, or what it does not need, back out into space2.

From Note 113 Journey: About four or five years later (2007-8) the financial system did implode ("GFC") and especially in the finance company sector in New Zealand. The story of how my share of my uncle's 'Will' got caught up in the so-called reform stage of the GFC, not the actual GFC itself, is yet another scandal to narrate for The Journal.

Two robberies, one in Israel and one in a London hostel were equally opportune occasions but I will leave them for The Journal. Anyway, I had to try and get the money back.

Footnote 95 Journey: In 2012, it was stolen, from under my nose and from my ofice at my job as custodian of the toilet block at Dixon Street, Wellington. Yet another opportune crime in the space of seconds as my back was turned. My fifth robbery

From fn 12 of The Job: But my custodial job at the Dixon Street toilets left whatever I saw at Herbert's Service Station far behind in regard to the grotesque and sordid. There I was to develop the concept of the 'BBC'. Refer The Journal.

From The Job: I had an Avenger and a mini at the end of my motoring career. They died the year I first went to Israel (1992). The Government changed the driving regulations. I refused to comply. Refer to The Journal for the rest of that story

From footnote 61 in The Journey: I had ceased driving now. My cars died. I could not afford to drive. I hated filling the pockets of Muslims who used the money to wage war on the Jews. So I was happy being carless.

Re fixing Mirya's car problem: Another friend, Lianne Brewerton and Paul, her (now) husband, knew of a mini fan who loved restoring minis. "Over a period beginning circa 1998 I moved out of a three bedroom house wherein I used the smallest bedroom and kept the two larger ones empty apart from a bed for other occupants or occasional visitors. That house [81 (a) Thurleigh Grove] also had a basement. I moved into a two-roomed flat. By 2010 I was in a small tenement room of about 70 square feet. Between 2004-10, I lived in hostels apart from a nine-month rental in Harlesden, North London." from The Job, circa page 29. Good place to talk about my time housing Michal and Ronnie who sold the dud mini to Mirya and about Amnon, Jonathan Sarfati and Amnon's Aunty all staying with me at Thurleigh Grove.

From The Job: There would be thirty years of steady growth; more than doubling production in the period. Correspondingly, the sheep industry shrank by about 50% over the same period - but not soley because of subsidies. That is another history for The Journal. Talk about the Muslim thing, the suppression of the value of prime lamb meat and the Scriptural connectiuons.

In September 1989, I was selected to go on a three-week tour of the United States as part of a briefing and training programme. This was a tremendous trip. I will probably say more about it in The Journal. And the bit about Karori Baptist elder asking me to withdraw my nomination for secretary of committees because others there had a snitch on me.

But who really was pulling the strings in New Zealand's economic Reforms in the mid 1980's, ironically from the year that named Orwell's 1984, is becoming less of a mystery as a better understanding of world history emerges from a proper analysis of the Bible. From The Job, circa page 21.

Why was I kept so much in the dark? ["Why the Ambassador did not push for some resolution like that is also odd considering he had been with "E.B." when problems arose in Korea. Why was I kept so much in the dark? [I attempt to answer that in The Journal" ] From The Journey, fn 46 about Duffy's marriage break-ups. The point here is that I usually found myself 'out of the loop' at work and in NZ society generally. Was this because of my accent, my Englishness, my Christianity? Might consider taking this footnote out of The Journey and putting it into The Journal

From The Job : It may be that Rob felt I would be better off at the Embassy. He may have done me a favour. Bruce did not see it that way. There is a background issue here regarding about six annual performance reviews I had been through up to that time. That will be a matter for discussion in The Journal.

Probably, it was just as well I departed toward the end of the Reagan-Bush era (George Bush the Elder of course). But that raises the issues re Iraq and WMD which I shall leave for The Journal. End npote 61 of The Journey, page 19 of the main document. Talking about the Ambassador's marriage with his niece and his wife walking out on him and Dffy's marriages.

Mr Chisolm teasing me me about woking up in class. There is an interesting issue here that only came to mind when my diabetes was diagnosed. Did I fall asleep regularly in school because of the diabetes in childhood? Was Mr Chisolm just joking or did I have a habit of falling asleep in class?

Re the Sedley's fear I may be a peadophile and the DomPost Front page heading for my Queen Sheba Tour): "However, the newspaper's front page could be causing me some long-term trouble especially if that material has been picked up for any file on me. I have had some suspicion in that regard but there is a better place to digress on that (in The Journal.)"

The Journey: FN 124 In this part of town, I discovered the delights of Holland Park (refer The Journal) and fn 123 re the delights of Hampstead Heath.

The Journey: FN 125: My five robberies; Chamberlain Road 1980's. two passports incidents - UK and Israel - the money problem at Atkins-Intelligent space and the notebook computer from Dixon Street toilet block 2012.

Even later, I ran into Mike in town and he asked if I was "ready to come back to work". That was a strange comment which I shall delve into in The Journal.

There is no room in this for divergent opinion but some institutions are nevertheless established following a pro forma only discussions or debating procedures that give the appearance of "dialogue" when there is none really. New Zealand's Royal Commission on Genetic Engineering or Modification was a case in point. I attended all its hearings. I leave that for The Journal. From FN 100 in The Job.

From fn 101 in the Job: Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, a Swedish Jew, as I understand, was Sir Winston Churchill's Chief Scientist in the War Room in London during WWII. One can visit this site in London and see the actual office. Mike Doig knew about the Viscount's role but my knowledge of him stemmed from Dr Warren Young's interest in his personal papers. About that interesting wee job I did for Warren, and my visit to Nuffield College, Oxford University, to do that job, I will leave for The Journal.

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