freediver wrote on Aug 24^th, 2018 at 5:05pm:



It's a simple electrical signal that has two phases, 1) plus +(feast) ... and 2) minus - (famine)

That's the best way I can describe it. It's one of those miracles of biology, and it has equal amounts of feast and famine. All of our thoughts, spoken words and actions are based in that biology

So it's not a measure of anything as such, it's an in-built vital function at the beginning of the mind process with a job to do, to keep the mind balanced between feast and famine

freediver wrote on Aug 24^th, 2018 at 10:12pm:



An assessment was made of how much feast or famine there is in articles and conversations. I devised a method to estimate the amount of each in the written dialogue. The method was to watch for words that have a feast bias, and watch for words that have famine bias

An example of a feast word is: "winning" - that's a feast biased word

An example of a famine word is: "lose" - that's a famine biased word

They are just two words that you should easily understand. But in fact, every word has a feast or famine bias, however it's not necessary to assess every word

A dialogue with more famine words than feast words, will be "famine" biased

A dialogue with more feast words than famine words, will be "feast" biased

That's the basic principle of the assessment method, but there were other considerations as well that could alter the degree of feast or famine. Many articles balanced out, they were the hardest to assess

There was a second part of the method that finalised the assessment of a dialogue, and that was to breeze back over the article or conversation and make absolutely sure I was getting it right

After that, I put pen to paper and started a plot line on a daily basis, assessing daily dialogues and the plot line consisted of angled lines or slightly angled lines depending on the degree of famine or feast for the day. A famine line went in a left direction, and the feast lines went in a right direction, going down the page. The angled lines were joined end to end, forming one continuous wavy line after months of plotting it

From one day to another, I had no idea how the wave would form, but after months of plotting it, it formed a pretty uniform sine wave type thing except it wasn't a semi circular wave, as I explained earlier it formed straight lines going down then crossing over to the other side then down again, crossing back over again and so on and so on

The link from your concept the Variable back to reality, is the plot line, the Variable became visible when I plotted it and it can be used. It's useful for checking what will actually tend to happen in the next cycle. Using the last Variable plot line I did, I picked up a terrorist attack in Russia a month before it happened, I knew within two days in a cycle when it would happen ... and it did. I used it for short term trends on the stock exchange. It was right about that too

Once the Variable is out in the open, it doesn't just belong to those articles and conversations any more, it's universal, it's the Feast and Famine Variable in everyones head, part of everyones mind

freediver wrote on Aug 25^th, 2018 at 2:12pm:



I used printed stuff. That was easier than trying to remember face to face conversations, or TV shows

Yes it could be automated. With today's high technology it could be done, but each day's result may still need some intervention by a human to give it the human touch, certain relevant feelings and/or emotions may result in a slight change of direction of the day's plot line

For example: If the famine in a day's plot line is because of a bank collapse, that famine might be counteracted by a general feeling in the community that the sky won't fall in with just one bank collapse, this would be a positive sign of optimism, which is feast. Only a human can assess this, so that slight amount of feast assessed by the human would draw the famine back a bit, make the plot line just a little bit straighter for that day's assessment

freediver wrote on Aug 25^th, 2018 at 9:47pm:



The first rule is to be completely impartial throughout the whole process, and evidence was necessary, and from that evidence a determination was made as to whether it was "strong", "moderate" or "weak". Then the plot line for the day was adjusted accordingly, tweaked, to use the correct term

One thing though that I discovered about plotting this Variable, was that consistency is far more important than accuracy, I strove for accuracy but neglecting to be consistent in applying the rules only results in a false variable no matter how accurate the daily assessments seemed to be.

My own moods were kept out of it. The rule is you assess what's before you and not change the assessment to suit yourself. It's like reading the fuel gauge in a new car - telling it that it's wrong is not going to work for you, is it?

Using the fuel gauge analogy, if the gauge shows full, it's feast. If the gauge shows empty, it's famine. If it shows half full, it's a balance of feast and famine (the plot line in the Variable would lean neither to the left nor right)

Now if the gauge shows 3/4 full, that will be a little more feast than there is famine. If it shows 1/4 full, that will be a little more famine than there is feast

The second rule of plotting the Variable is to keep things simple, because in the end, the Variable itself is simple, as it turned out. Every time I brought complication into assessing it, nothing really worked, complication and complexity were totally unnecessary, only simplicity worked

Another interesting fact about this variable is that it can be plotted retrospectively. Assessing the feast and famine biases in written works from the past could take it back hundreds of years, possible thousands. It's not a job I'd do all by myself, it would require a dedicated team compiling copies of past preserved works to read and assess but the retrospective Variable would give up a lot of secrets once it was done - when the next Depression will come about, when the next "Hitler" will emerge, etc etc. These things will happen, just in different forms than they did last time they happened

freediver wrote on Aug 26^th, 2018 at 5:07pm:



Because it's one of the considerations taken into account in the overall process. It's done separately only as all the other aspects of the assessments are done, then they are melded together resulting in a final degree of angle for the day's plot line.

freediver wrote on Aug 26^th, 2018 at 6:33pm:



The famine or feast bias in the feeling. If the feeling came across as being strong, it's bias would be significant. If the feeling was only mild, it's bias would be less significant and wouldn't count so much in the final assessment

With the Govt spill we've all being observing, the general feeling of the community was one of concern, but that concern wasn't necessarily an extreme concern (did you see the interviews in the street?, most of those citizens kept their cool)

The bias in those interviews was famine, tempered by feast because of their coolness. But because of their concern, the bias was still famine, just not as much as it might have been had they been displaying real despair and/or hopelessness

freediver wrote on Aug 26^th, 2018 at 10:25pm:


And you turned an interesting thread into one of your personal stalkathons.

Sala'am Aleikum, no?

Why go to the trouble of getting an objective measure if you are then going to "correct" it for your own interpretation?