When logic dictates the pieces of the puzzle will never fit you are left with speculation. If you can’t make a picture of the pieces you are given, you begin searching around for pieces that will fit and complete the picture. The assassination of JFK could not have happened the way our government says it did; the pieces of the puzzle just don’t fit. The pieces don’t fit for the government version of 9/11 or the war in Iraq. The pieces don’t fit concerning Roswell and UFOs, and the pieces don’t fit for many things of the ancient past according to “official” or “expert” versions.

We have every reason to assume those in our government lie to us as a matter of course. But could they be lying to us about some things out of fear, because they know there are aliens among us or 2012 is in fact going to be “Doomsday?” Suppose you knew the end was near, what would you do? Go about business as usual, build an underground shelter and stock supplies, or take a gun and get what you want? If you were in charge of a nation, would you do as the Russians and Chinese building underground cities for the privileged few chosen to survive? Here in America there are doubtless such places for the “chosen few.”

The books have been written and the films made covering all kinds of speculation, but the worst fears are aroused by knowing those in our government lie to us; and have been doing so for many years. It is because of this historical record of lies and still ongoing every kind of conspiracy theory finds credibility among so many people. But it does remain a puzzle how those so unsuitable to make decisions favoring America rise to power; some great global influence pulling the strings? Well, I do believe there is a Devil so that simplifies things for me. True or not I can make some sense of things this way, I can make the pieces fit of what would otherwise seem to be lunacy throughout the world.

Granted the Devil, UFOs and Doomsday 2012 are pieces of the puzzle that don’t fit the particular picture of some people, but for others the pieces fit very well. All we have when it comes to the knowledge of some ancient cultures and their achievements is pieces of a puzzle. Oftentimes, the only way to make the pieces fit is to use our imagination and give ourselves over to speculation. I’m fortunate to have the time and ability to do this, and find such an occupation fascinating. I am especially fascinated by pieces of puzzles offered by “experts” that logic dictates do not fit the picture and doom conventional wisdom. Much in the same fashion I try to figure out why those in our government lie to us? What is the real purpose behind some of these lies? Rather than just become angry, the subject is one of fascination for me.

Whatever the reasons those in government lie to us, there really isn’t much I can do about the situation. And if the end is near, what could I possibly do about that? So, I hand things over to my mind trying to follow an oft-times elusive muse wherever, as in celestial fishing casting my line upwards toward the stars in hope of catching a “keeper,” but most often getting nibbles rather than hooking the fish. Still, even the nibbles as with all true disciples of Izaak Walton are enough to keep me angling, knowing as Thoreau pointed out the heavens are scarcely less dense than the waters below, something that as a pilot I came to fully appreciate.

To date, for example, in angling for ideas, pieces of puzzles, it occurred to me Egyptologists have failed to find any inscriptions around the pyramids or elsewhere exclaiming “Your Tax Dollars At Work,” or “Pharaoh’s Public Works Project (PPWP).” For those old enough to recall the WPA and other New Deal brainstorms of the FDR administration, one might expect to find such a thing among ancient Egyptian artifacts and those of other ancient civilizations, though the evil of taxes appears to have been a very early invention.

Many of you have read Henry’s marvelous tract “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience.” And most of us can readily relate to many of the evils of government he writes about. But my mind keeps turning to the possibility our leaders are lying to us because they are afraid to tell us the truth. This in turn causes me to speculate about the possibilities, the reasons leaders might have for lying to us. The problem I have with such speculation is I can think of nothing good our leaders might be hiding from us and lying about.

But I can accept the Biblical version of God, by whatever means, having put the knowledge to do some things in the hearts/minds of special persons of his choosing. Superior knowledge of things like agriculture and iron must have come from some other source than the ingenuity of human beings alone. At that, many mysteries such as the Sphinx, the pyramids of Giza, the ancient map of the constellations and Nazca lines remain. But there is also the Devil to consider; whether it was some such malignant source that provided the means for us to annihilate ourselves with nuclear weapons, and I don’t think the inventions of any means of mass-killing such as machine guns and bombs of any description were intended for our welfare. According to the Bible Satan has some of his choosing as well as God; Jesus certainly credited this. Considering the many horrors visited upon humankind, the many diabolical creatures represented in stone from ages past by all cultures I believe this to be true.

Perhaps you have noticed the increase of violence and mind-numbing noise on TV. Many times lately I have thought to view a program I found interesting only to have some nerve-wracking soundtrack forcing me to change channels. I recall some otherwise good films being wrecked by an unsuitable score, much like the inane smiles of news people while reporting on some tragedy. The “pieces” simply don’t fit.

This I know, it isn’t my imagination. The violence and horrid noise is increasing on TV. Is there some malevolent agency responsible for this increase? I ask myself who in their right mind finds some of these things acceptable to the viewing audience? It simply isn’t logical that those responsible for these productions can fail to understand that an irritating, distracting soundtrack will cause people to turn to another channel. But then it isn’t logical that those news people would smile while reporting on tragic events.

While I enjoy a mystery, while looking for pieces to fit some particular puzzle is a fascinating occupation, the concerns remain, as does the memorable statement of Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men: “You can’t handle the truth!” As a consequence quite often I find myself looking to the implausible and improbable for pieces to fit a particular puzzle, though the risk remains I may yet stumble across just the right piece, the truth, only to discover as well that I can’t handle it.