GREENYGREY’S RAMBLES

While the ‘peace movement’ in the UK seem to need little excuse to oppose the actions of the UK government; or even the US, Israeli, Russian, Chinese or other western and eastern countries; they seem very quiet when it comes to opposing Islam’s many wars around the world, or even protesting against Islamic mistreatment of its own citizens.

Bridge on the River Kwai Syndrome

The ‘peace movement’ support for the Islamic Fundamentalist view that Islam is an innocent victim in all its conflicts around the world provides a second opinion that can only help extremist attempts to radicalise the Muslim youth in the UK.  The BBC starts a three part investigation into the extent of radical ideas in the Muslim UK population tonight (Monday, February 8th).

The ‘peace movement’ seem to have what I call the Bridge on the River Kwai syndrome.  In the film, The Bridge on the River Kwai, a British colonel in a Japanese prisoner of war camp got so engrossed in building a bridge for the Japanese that he initially tried to stop an attempt to blow up the bridge by his fellow prisoners.

The War in Afghanistan

The same seems to be true with the ‘peace movement’ in the UK.  They seem to be so used to fighting Islam’s wars for it that they have lost their ‘peace and equality’ ideology  and started supporting the spread of ‘war and inequality’ by Islam around the world.

The ‘peace movement’ should examine what they are supporting when they oppose the ‘liberation of Afghanistan’.  For my own part, I hope Nato’s declared rationale for the war is true, and it can bring a better society for the Afghan people.

This video on the BBC was a reminder of what Nato are fighting against in Afghanistan.  I don’t know if this Afghan girl’s testimony about the Taliban kidnapping, brainwashing and forcing children into suicide bombing is true, but her accusastions about the Taliban do not seem out of place with their ideology and previous behaviour.

The Taliban ideology is not native to Afghanistan and I don’t think the people deserve it. 

As you may know by now, while this blog celebrates the great advances made by humanity over its history it also has a Socratian emphasis on questioning just how wise we really are in the great scheme of things.

Horizon: Don’t Grow Old…But You Will 

This week’s Horizon documentary on the BBC looked at scientific efforts to find an elixir to protect us against ageing.

It didn’t bring us news of anything yet available to definitely keep us young, but ran through the possibilities and theories quite entertainingly.

Evidence of a Documentary Providing Infotainment But Nothing Monumental

A lot of people watching will probably have hoped to receive some groundbreaking news about an elixir, but instead we got progress reports on the current science.

However, there were some interesting studies cited: such as the one where old people who’d been dependent on the welfare services were given more independence.  They improved most of their capabilities over a small amount of time.

That kind of empowerment is also the objective of Chipmunka, my book publishers.  I also believe that if people are treated with respect and patience they can perform much better than if they are continuously criticised and pressured.

That is partly why I have now included the Greenygrey on our website biography page.

Have a great weekend!!

Hi, no the heading is not a new punk band, or GG’s playmates, but the stars of last night’s BBC Natural World documentary: Prairie Dogs - Talk of the Town.  It contained both very funny footage, and very important information about their ‘culture’.

The funnies were when Professor Con Slobodchikoff, who has been researching prairie dogs for thirty years, wheeled out a fake coyote and other predators to hear the reaction of the prairie dogs.  Turned out the PDs had a different call for each animal, and passed it on to their young, which is thought to be evidence of a ‘language’.  They also have a call for the all clear, which is like a raucous prairie dog Mexican wave!

Anyway, for an expert view I’ll pass you over to Pablo Orlov, distant prairie dog cousin of Alexandr Orlov, the star of the Compare the Meerkats website:

‘Hello Greezygreyzters, Pablo Orlov here.  Pleez excuz mi Eenglish.  It eez great to be here wiz youz.  Alexandr recently told me he owz loads to the Greezygrey one, and earlier influences such as Scoobzy Doo, as their travels and rise to cebrity status paved zee way for udder anthromorphic stars like Alexandr.

Anyway, of course we prairie dogs can communicate.  Simples.’

Thank you for your expert opinion Pablo, and thanks also to Alexandr for the acknowledgement to GG. 

A couple of weeks ago I was rambling on about the Secret Life of Chaos documentary.  I then wrote a Folding Mirror poem inspired by the poem, including what I could remember about the theories espoused. 

New Folding Mirror Poem 

Thanks to Claire Knight by the way, who has created three new Folding Mirror poems that will be on the fmpoetry site in the near future.  The first, about being housebound in the snow is on the site now.  Perhaps fittingly, at least for the first half of the poem, the snow is falling heavily at the moment.

Prophet of the Chemistry Periodic Table

Prof. Jim Al-Khalili, who presented The Secret Life of Chaos, has a three part documentary about how the science of chemistry evolved.

I had no idea about chemistry before watching it, but a lot of it has interest, and it is amazing and enthralling to see the dangerous lengths some scientists went to in their research.

Yesterday’s programme, The Order of the Elements, described how Dmitri Mendeleev literally dreamt up the order of elements for the periodic table, which was a massive breakthrough in the field.

So don’t feel guilty about sleeping!

Although this website generally promotes an agnostic pantheist pagan ideology, it respects people’s rights to worship what they want as long as they don’t try and force it on others or use it to harm other life.

If people want to believe in monotheistic religions, and heaven and hells, then that is up to them.  I wish I could in many ways.

Paganism and Christianity in the UK

On the question of religion in UK history, I think Christianity was good in some ways, such as getting rid of the use of sacrifice; but it also did a lot of bad, such as the witch-burnings.

Christianity is mostly benign now, giving comfort and tradition to believers, but can still be used for bad; such as when those in respectable positions abuse the trust put in them, and destroy the lives of those they are supposed to be leading.

Religion in the UK and on Television Today

I think New Age Paganism offers more in this day and age: where we are at in terms of astronomy; science; human and animal rights; and the environment.  But I wouldn’t want to force that opinion on anybody.  People can stop reading the blog, or just disagree if they wish.

There was a debate about whether paganism is more relevant than Christianity on the BBC’s Big Questions programme last Sunday, and it’s viewable on BBC iplayer until 10.59 next Sunday (February 7th).

Channel Four also has a series about the history of the bible on at the moment, for those who wish to become more informed about the Middle-East and why the holy land is still at war thousands of years after the monotheistic religions that dominate our world started. 

The last episode was about Abraham, the father of all three great (?) monotheistic religions, and the arguments that still divide the world all started with him too!

Celebrity Big Brother Alpha Werewolf wasn’t such a disaster for GG after all.  Not only did it win the werewolf version of the popular reality television show, and get some good kip in the process, but the 2010 stats for this website were the best January yet:

In January 2010 there were 504 unique visitors, compared to 397 last year and only 89 in 2008.

In January 2010 there were 893 number of visits, compared to 633 last year and 155 in 2008.

In January 2010 there were 3701 page views, compared to 2933 last year and 2266 in 2008.

In January 2010 there were 11546 hits, compared to 6489 last year and 16680 in 2008.

In January 2010 there was 81.66 MB bandwidth used, compared to 56.64 MB last year and 58.67 MB in 2008.

So all the trends seem to rising in general, with only the Hits stats an aberration; that is because they went a bit barmy in the first January, when the website first entered the big worldwide web.

GG will be delighted when it wakes!

It was a great night celebrating GG’s CBBAW win last night, but the green and grey one slept through it all. 

To make the night even more special, Mars is at its closest to Earth for two years at the moment, and it is near the moon in the early UK night.  You can tell its reddish/orangeness with the naked eye.  Apparently it was also the brightest Full Moon of the year a couple of nights ago.

Surprised GG didn’t wake up for that!

Yes, you read the title right, the Greenygrey has won Celebrity Big Brother Alpha Werewolf.  I always knew that good ol’ lovable werewolf had it in it!  It seems the werewolf public took to its laid back unconcerned demeanour on the show, and voted GG the winner by a clear margin.  After the disappointment of I’m A Celebrity Werewolf this is a great day for greenygreys everywhere, and should be a boost for the GG brand.

Thanks for all your votes.  We were hoping to feature an exclusive interview with GG, but it hasn’t woken up yet, and had to be carried out of the house den.  We’ll let you know when it’s awake.

Not Such Good News for Caged Wolf 

It was not such good news for Caged Wolf though.  The main reason it was included in the show was because it was in a relationship with Katie TooPriceyWolf, who took part in I’m A Celebrity Werewolf alongside GG. 

Although Caged Wolf did great on the show, after he didn’t win TooPriceyWolf dumped poor CagedWolf live on Werewolf TV, before denying that she would have continued dating him if he’d won.

It must also be remembered that KTPW did of course give him his ‘big break’ by dating him.

That useless lump of green and grey fur is still fast akip, with the final of Celebrity Big Brother Alpha Werewolf fast approaching.  To think of all the time and effort I’ve put in to get its book published and appearances on I’m A Celebrity Werewolf as well as the current Celebrity Big Brother Alpha Werewolf. 

And all it can do is sleep through it all.  It’s seems a far cry from the superhuman werewolf I met after its epic North American travels.

Not only that, but some of the other werewolf housemates have now gone and badly drawn silly glasses and a moustache on it while it sleeps.  It’s going to take some effort to resurrect its career and brand after this I can tell you.

Anyway, for all its worth, back to the live cam focusing on GG:

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Celebrity Big Brother Alpha Werewolf seems to be a ratings loser so far, with January figures down.  It may be doing damage to GG’s brand and image, so we’ve arranged for a live webcam to focus exclusively on GG in the hope that it might turn things around.  Over to GG in the CBBAW house:

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