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Quantum Computers: What's in the Box?

Quantum Computers: Expectation vs Reality

They say nature abhors a vacuum but a bullshitter absolutely adores a knowledge vacuum, that is, an area of expertise where most people don’t have a full or even partial understanding of the topic and this can be exploited to fill the knowledge gaps with outlandish and implausible rubbish by someone who is relying on the fact that their audience don’t know any better.

There are many examples in the tech-sphere these days, for instance, AI is not intelligence and likely never will be: it’s just a web trawler with a highly specialized algorithm or set of instructions, and it’s the fact that it has such a monumental dataset that it seems able to mimic human activity. Another one is Bitcoin which is a constant high-anxiety roller-coaster ride of sleepless nights for investors who can never truly rest and be peaceful with their investment for fear they miss the start of the rinse-cycle sell-off and find themselves one of the last poor chumps holding the empty bag. It was designed to be a medium of exchange beyond the control of the banking system, but it can never be that now; it has become an investment in itself, contrary to the whole ethos and rationale behind its creation. This subversion has turned it into a paltry but elaborate pyramid scam or Ponzi-scheme in high-tech camouflage, and it is due to enter the rinse and shrink cycle once all the suckers get on board again.

From what I noticed, it wreaked havoc on the economy of the UAE. I was there when the UAE went crazy for Bitcoin because everybody only saw the upward trend and the hype. I worked in the UAE as a school teacher during the growing Bitcoin bubble and eventual crash and my friend even taught a syllabus produced by the government, which taught the students that they couldn’t lose their money with Bitcoin. Then of course, the Bitcoin Ponzi scheme entered its shrink and rinse the suckers out phase, once the pension funds and major world governments had sunk enough money in it to pay off the players who got in earlier and who knew when to start selling, leaving the mugs holding the empty bag. Ultimately, its dramatic crash forced the UAE to implement a raft of new policies which can only have been a result of having to make backroom deals with the IMF and World Bank and might explain the reversal of several of its previous long-term policies.

For instance, at this time the UAE started shaking down their population for any bit of spare change they could get out of them; so the place I lived, a lovely seaside town called Khor Fakkan, suddenly implemented parking charges throughout the whole town and elsewhere in the country there was even a meanspirited 5 dirham charge to see the view from Jebel Jeis, the highest mountain in the country. It was clear that something had seemingly changed in the economy; it was about the same time, in 2020, that the UAE decided to officially recognize the state of Israel and allow Israelis to do business in their country, shortly afterwards an Israeli woman called Frida Kiwan was caught entering the country with half a kilogram of cocaine. 

Clearly this was one of the IMF’s conditions. Furthermore, the woman had been sentenced to death, but was recently given a full pardon and released. Such is the power of Israel that its citizens can carry out specific drug crimes in the strictest country in the world for such crimes and get off Scot Free with a pardon from Sheikh Mohammed himself. The implication is clear and I won’t say anymore - I don’t want to get arrested and imprisoned myself next time I stop over at Dubai airport, and not being Israeli, it’s unlikely I will experience the same favourable personal munificence and leniency of the ruling royal family. Shortly after Frida’s initial arrest another Israel, Halil Dasuki, was also arrested in Dubai on suspicion of planning to smuggle half a ton of cocaine from Israel to the UAE. Isn’t it wonderful what quality of life improvements you get for your country when you open the door to Israelis to freely enter your country?[i]

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[i] https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-herzog-plea-uae-frees-israeli-woman-serving-life-sentence-for-drug-smuggling/

Most of these new technologies are not improving the internet and our experience but ruining it. It now takes longer to weed out the AI voiced artificially generated Youtube videos than it does to actually watch a video based on the content you want to see and now websites can be created entirely using AI text generation, and there are more and more websites which have no real or authentic content whatsoever. Now the latest bogey and bullshit man is quantum computing. It has communicated with extra-terrestrial intelligence! It has become self-aware! It can end the world! It will replace humanity! All of these provocative ideas have been rolled out recently in the tech media fringe. Quantum computers have become a mystery box of possibilities but few people really have a clue what’s in the box.

State of the Art Quantum Confuser.

 

Late last year there was an ominous series of reports which seeped into the various lubricious channels of internet tech media; whether this report was an accidental leak or a somewhat more contrived example of the moistest kind of media manipulation in order to drive up interest and the share-price of an ailing tech company, we can only speculate. From the many tech websites the same fevered phrase, worthy of Black Mesa and the scientific rhetoric of the understated apocalyptical disaster: an ‘unforeseen incident’.

The fact that we are all still here and in no immediate danger of being attacked by jumping head-crabs while taking the dog for a morning walk, and turning into a head-crab zombie with clawed slashing arms and a maw of jagged teeth coming out of our chest cavity by lunchtime, indicates that the worst scientific-disaster has either been averted or just not happened yet.

Obviously, it’s hard to get serious or reliable information about what might have taken place during NASA’s experiments with quantum computing, and why NASA reportedly shut down their experiments with a D-Wave quantum computer at the AMES research laboratory in California. Perhaps the most conservative report about the story, from Medium, states that:

“…during a recent test, the computer-generated results that were inconsistent with known physical laws.”[1]

This sounds somewhat ambiguous and if you squint and have an over-active imagination, just like I hope you do because I definitely do, then it almost sounds like the quantum computer started operating on another level of reality and managed to high-five God and had a chat with him and this freaked out all the crazy bald-head boffins so they shut it down. On the other hand, since one issue with quantum computing is that it is particularly ‘noisy’ it may be that the quantum computer just started generating a load of old rubbish. Data and results are easily corrupted due to the extremely sensitive nature of the quantum state, and the fact that even inputting instructions, adds energy which temporarily disrupts the quantum state which can only be maintained at extreme low temperatures where atomic and vibrational activity is almost nill.

An apparent source for all this appears to be an Indian tech writer called Gaurav Sharma who writes  for the Times Internet group and also writes for Medium. He published an article for UdayIndia in December 2023 and an edited version of this article appeared on a website called Techgig[2] in February 2024

“The abrupt shutdown of NASA's quantum computing project was triggered by an unforeseen incident during a routine test.”

This article also features its own example of a Shrödinger’s cat quantum paradox since the article reports that the D-Wave computer both reportedly succeeded and failed spectacularly at the same time:

“During the analysis of a complex simulation, the quantum computer demonstrated unprecedented computational power, solving a previously intractable problem. However, this remarkable achievement had an equally alarming consequence: quantum computers began generating outputs that made no sense and challenged conventional thinking.”

This is followed by a sudden hard swerve into the Twilight-Zone:

“Researchers and government officials were concerned that the quantum computer might have connected with an extraterrestrial intelligence or even entered an unknown realm of computation.”

I mean, it’s certainly possible. As I have tried to demonstrate, the quantum realm is the source of everything in the universe and is a kind of overworld God realm, but is it possible that quantum computers can meet and greet directly with God or hang with aliens exchanging top bants and dank memes in 4 dimensional chat-rooms?

John McAfee is not dead: he's just moved to another universe.

In quantum field theory, all possible trajectories of the single photon through the slits are objectively real, like Schrödinger’s cat, which is both alive and dead at the same time, until you open the box. There is however one main alternative theory to the Copenhagen interpretation and this is something people might have heard of because it has been quite publicized by some science fiction shows and TV science popularisers.

The many-worlds interpretation, posited by physicist and military scientist, Hugh Everett III, states that the wave function doesn’t actually collapse at all when a measurement of the position of the photon or other quantum object is made. Instead, what happens for instance when you open Schrödinger’s box, is that two realities are created, one where the cat is dead and one where it is alive. In that sense, the wave function is eternal and never truly collapses. Everett believed the whole universe was a single quantum wave which never collapses but just eternally branches out into ‘different worlds’. So for every photon or subatomic particle in the universe, there must be different universes where all the near infinite possibilities are expressed.[i] Believe it or not there are real scientists who believe this. For me, thinking like this is like following Ignacio de Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises, it’s a good way to induce auto-psychosis, or in other words, go insane.

Everett was scorned by fellow scientists at the time, but in recent times his theory has gained acceptance among people who really should know better. Everett believed in something called quantum immortality, which is a very strange kind of fabricated scientific thesis to allow him and indeed, everyone, to live forever. In his quantum immortality theory, he believed that because his many worlds theory of parallel universes, meant that things such as quantum particles were forever branching off to enter new universes, his consciousness too, would follow a path, eternally branching off into different universes, so as to always take the path that avoided death. So presumably he believed that on his deathbed, he would suddenly find himself in his own body, alive, but in a different universe, and this would presumably happen forever.

It does seem a particularly desperate way to gain the immortality of your soul, by inventing outlandish scientific and by definition, completely unprovable theories, when by definition, science prides itself on being provable.  There are easier ways to find out about life after death and they are simply by reading the words of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

It would make a pretty good science fiction story I guess, following someone through different near-death experiences, and finding himself reset at a different point, each time, and I wonder if it has been done yet. It would have a kind of Philip K Dick flavour perhaps, or it could be a scientist who somehow creates a device which allows him to escape death and live forever by switching between different universes. Everett would theorise about playing Russian roulette, and that if he shot himself his consciousness would then enter a different branch of the ‘many worlds’ and survive, presumably he believed he could eternally shoot himself in the head and his consciousness would always find itself in the winning branch with the gun still in his hand and holding a gun where the bullet is always in a different chamber. In fact, that iconic image of John McAfee holding a gun to his head, was part of an interview with Wired where he goes into his own theories about so called quantum suicide.

This is from a Sun article reporting on the Wired article, it’s clearly an example of second-hand news but I suppose it’s at least encouraging that the Sun is covering something like this which is somewhat outside their usual range of interests, not that I’ve really read a copy of the Sun since I used to deliver them on my paper round.

 “’Quantum suicide’ is a theoretical thought experiment which is based on the idea there are an infinite amount of parallel universes. The mind-bending theory goes that every decision creates a different universe, according to the basis of quantum mechanics. So the outlandish conceptual experiment claims if this is all true - you should be able to stand in front of loaded gun and survive. This is because your consciousness only continues in the parallel universe in which you survive - thus proving we have ‘quantum immortality’. Quantum suicide however is only an abstract thought experiment - and would not work in the real world - and it used mainly as a concept to help distinguish between different theories of quantum mechanics. McAfee however appears to have been intrigued by the idea. And the he even appeared to perform the thought experiment live for a journalist from WIRED[ii] in 2013.”[iii]

Quantum Mechanics Primer

The Mystery which cannot Go Away

 

The double-slit experiment, first performed in 1801 by Thomas Young is perhaps THE scientific experiment which represents the very beginning of the modern scientific era. It seeks to analyse the nature of light and discovers a new universe with new-rules but it was not until 100 years later that Max Planck coined the term ‘quanta’ as a way to describe a quantity or discrete unit of light from which we have the terminology of quantum physics. 

 The double-slit experiment is one of the simplest scientific experiments ever devised: it requires only two things: some light and an impermeable sheet with two slits in it. What the experiment lacks in complexity it has more than compensated for by the astonishing results which it has yielded. The double-slit experiment, is in itself, a 4-dimensional experiment, that is mutable and responsive to the observer. It is an experiment which exists and is repeatable and stable in the scientific sense, but infinitely changeable and although devised with a certain hypothesis and outcome in mind, which it delivered, can also give different and contrasting results, depending on how the experiment is performed.

 For instance, Thomas Young performed the experiment to analyse the nature of light which he suspected was a kind of wave. The supposed light ‘waves’ were duly produced by the ‘interference’ patterns produced when the light ‘waves’ went through the two slits, proving once and for all that light was indeed a ‘wave’ and everyone went away with happy faces. It was not until the invention of the cathode ray that single electrons could be fired through the double slits which would inexplicably lead to the same characteristic ‘wave’ diffraction patterns which Young had produced nearly a century before.

 

The dramatic conclusion reached was that a single particle somehow passes through both slits at once in order to create the wave interference pattern, or that light acts as both a wave and a particle at the same time, which appears to be an inherent contradiction. Furthermore, that if there were any attempt to measure or localise the light as it passed through the slits, then the ‘wave function’ collapsed and the pattern changed to show that only a single photon had passed through one of the slits and there was no wave diffraction pattern. 

The particularly peculiar thing about the double-slit experiment and the collapse of the wave function is that it is not the measuring or recording device itself which collapses the wave function but it seems to be consciousness itself which does this, and many elaborations on the double-slit experiment have been devised precisely to test this strange hypothesis which has so disturbed many renowned scientists.

For instance, if an interferometer is introduced into the experiment to pinpoint the position of the 4d photon, then the wave function collapses and we see a pattern which would indicate that the photon has passed as a particle through one of the two slits. However, if there was no 'access' to the information and the observer had no idea which slit the photon had passed through, then it would behave as a wave and the wave function would be maintained and it would create a wave diffraction pattern. So, if our minds can have an effect over one photon or electron then what more control can we have over the whole light-based reality?

Quantum physics puts the human mind at the centre of the phenomenon and, by implication the observer seems to play an active part in ordering reality itself. But back in 1801, before any of this was ever dreamed of, Thomas Young performed the experiment to analyse the nature of light which he suspected was a kind of wave, and he actually used sunlight.

Sunlight was sent through the metal sheet with two slits and an interference pattern was produced on the screen by the light ‘wave’ passing through the slits and creating the wave interference pattern. The interference pattern which is so central to quantum physics, is composed of alternating bright bands and dark bands, so light waves coming out of one slit, interacted with the light waves coming out of the other slit, and where the two waves met at peaks or troughs, they reinforced each other and created a bright band of light, while where a peak met a trough, the waves cancelled each other out and a dark band was produced on the screen. The bright and dark bands on the screen are a two-dimensional representation of the two wave fronts reinforcing (as in the bright areas) or cancelling each other out (as in the dark areas).

He proved to himself and science, that the light ‘waves’ went through the two slits, as waves, interfered with each other, so to speak, and then formed the interference pattern on the screen, proving once and for all that light was indeed a ‘wave’, at least so they thought. It was not until the invention of the cathode ray that subatomic, single free electrons could be fired through the double slits, although now, they can use attenuated or low power lasers to fire single photons.

Since electrons, as subatomic particles are also ‘quantum objects’ like photons, atoms and more recently, molecules up to a certain size. It might have been presumed that firing single ‘particles’ would create a different kind of pattern of light on the screen, perhaps one showing two bright bands, where the particles had passed through one slit or the other. However, instead, firing single electrons through the slits, incrementally created the same interference pattern as if light waves were passing through both slits simultaneously, and interacting with each other as before, the waves either reinforcing or cancelling each other out in order to create the interference pattern.  But how can it be that single quantum electrons, passing individually through one of the two slits can create an interference pattern as if they are interacting with each other and passing through both slits at once and interfering with each other as if they are part of some kind of unified whole?

 The dramatic conclusion of this experiment is that the quantum particle is both a wave and a particle at the same time. Speaking of the Double Slit experiment, our friend Richard Feynman said:

 “…this one experiment.. has been designed to contain all of the mystery of quantum mechanics, to put you up against the paradoxes and mysteries and peculiarities of nature one hundred per cent. Any other situation in quantum mechanics, it turns out, can always be explained by saying, 'You remember the case of the experiment with the two holes? It's the same thing'. I am going to tell you about the experiment with the two holes. I am baring nature in her most elegant and difficult form.”[i]

THE KEY TO THE PRESENT IS BURIED IN THE PAST.

AND THE KEY TO THE PAST IS BURIED IN THE PRESENT.                           

                           

In order to understand the present we need to discover the secrets of the past. There has been an agenda unfolding throughout the years for the establishment of a Jewish homeland and Freemasonry has been its prime motor of action. We can understand how this has been achieved, by the activities of Jewish Kabbalists and Sabbateans infiltrating into Freemasonry during the 18th century, and people like Emmanuel Swedenborg were their disciples. Freemasonry has long been suspected of actually being a secret society with Judaic origins:

“Chevalier Ramsay delivered his famous Ramsay's oration, which described Freemasonry as an originally Jewish fraternity, whose secrets were discovered by the crusading knights of the Temple and then transmitted to operative masons in France and the British Isles.”

If we are to understand more about this manipulation, we need to understand everything we can about the arch manipulator Falk, but such men, whom one moment are under threat of being burned at the stake for witchcraft and the next are called by Count Cogliostro “the greatest man in Europe, the famous Falk in London” one would hardly expect to find clear footprints of all their movements.

In a report of the Vatican inquisition dated 1791:

'Cagliostro perceived that their [Freemasons’] ceremonies were disfigured and disgraced by magic and superstition; the principles of Swedenborg, a Swedish preacher; and those of M. Falc, a Jew rabbi, are regarded as chiefs by the illuminated.'

In her article: Jacobite and Visionary: the Masonic Journey of Emanuel Swedenborg, Marsha Schuchard writes:

“That Scottish Freemasonry had long traditions of 'second sight' was relevant, and some Swedish freemasons would later claim that Swedenborg possessed that peculiar gift of clairvoyance. See Tafel, 'New Documents', New Church Magazine, 4 (1885), p. 381, for Dr Husband Messiter's belief that Swedenborg possessed second sight.”

Hayyim Samuel Jacob Falk was one of the Ba’alei shem: a master of the divine name, a Ba’al shem is a Kabbalist who can write Kabbalistic amulets using the supposed name of God, and they were said to be able to conjure angels, predict the future, and offer protection from demons and disasters. Falk was said to engage in magical rituals in Epping forest and along the shores of the Thames. He became known as the ‘unknown superior’ of the Freemasons.

Hayyim Samuel Jacob Falk: One of the 'Unknown Superiors' of Freemasonry.

As member of the French Anti-Masonic league and founder of several anti-Masonic newspapers and writer of several books on Freemasonry, Andre Baron, pointed out the links between Freemasonry, Martinism, and Adam Weishaupt’s Bavarian Illuminati and wrote the famous maxim: "Remember that the constant rule of the secret societies is that the real authors never show themselves.”

The Karma Farmer

They say life’s a bowl of cherries

Well that depends on your grocer

You might wanna look a little closer

And see what’s in your bag.

 

There’s a dapper retired old guy

His Christian name is John

Always wears a suit and tie,

But wonders where all his friends have gone..

Unfamiliar faces meet on his street,

Instilling him with fear

Outnumbered by their dark looks,

They don’t belong here.

Where’ve they all come from?

 

What’s it all about?

He thought about it constantly,

Then figured it out,

An alien invasion orchestrated by a hidden hand. 

Turning the country in an alien colony,

Directing hoards of Turkish barbers to invade the land,

All the shops are now Turkish barbers,

And their only customers are other Turkish barbers

He posted his findings on Facebook and got himself banned.

 

Beef Tree

           

Merry Christmas 1819 mad George the 3rd,

Jabbering nonsense for 58 hours

Thick foam gathering on his lips like eggnog

Then from the King a new noise was heard,

something like the whining and howling of a dog.

 

No your highness, that tree you are shaking hands with

is not the King of Prussia.

“No?” said the baffled king squinting, “Who is it then?”

 

The poetic steward started hinting, and said:

Your highness, put your hand down, let go of the tree,

For it is not a king, just a part of nature's beauty

But it was lost on the King, who greeted a rose bush instead.

 

And he spoke to his daughter, despite her being dead

And with paternal pride and joy at something wonderful,

He told her all about her own funeral.

 

He then buried a steak in the grounds of the castle,

An ingenious plan to feed the poor

Waiting for it to grow into a beef tree; 

He was surprised no one else had thought of it before.

It took the mind of a King to see things clearly.

 

KABBALAH PSYCHOSIS!

 

The Kabbalistic Tree of life seems as much as anything else to be a framework of different aspects of the psyche and the conditions therein. There is perhaps a reason why psychiatry is such an eminently Jewish science and also perhaps again an example of the practitioner imposing his view on a phenomenon for reasons known only to himself. Just as the psychiatrist imposes his own definitions so too, the Kabbalist impose his own definitions on God.

The Zohar is the central and most important book of the Kabbalah. Much of its discourse is based on secret interpretations of the Torah in such a way to bend, change or even contradict the original meaning. It does this by creating a whole secondary study on the meaning of the words used in the Torah by interpreting and ascribing some kind of mystical interpretation to the Hebrew letters themselves.

I have previously written on the fascinating origin of the alphabet as pictographic symbols, a fact many people are completely unaware of today except for students of linguistics; this fascinating study opens up vistas into our most remote past and confronts us with some intriguing mysteries. For instance, learning that the letter C represent a ‘Gamal’ or ‘throwing stick’ we might wonder how this ancient Egyptian hunting tool found its way to the Australian Aborigines. The word ‘Gamal’ is the Arabic word for camel and it is possibly the distinctive bent, or arched shape of the throwing stick and also the word for ‘bridge’ in Aramaic is ‘Gamla’, no doubt the distinctive ‘arched’ shape of the camel back being the inspiration but all of these words have their origins with the Ancient Egyptian word for a ‘throwing stick’ and the verb QMR or ‘qamar’ which meant ‘to throw’. We can see how with the passage of years consonantal shift may slightly obscure the origins. So ‘q’ and ‘g’ and ‘r’ and ‘l’ are largely equivalent and phonetically very close when it comes to the movements of the tongue and the mouth for their articulation.

The Study of the letters of our own alphabet also betray the Middle-Eastern, ancient Semitic origins of our letters. The alphabet we may consider to be Greek since the letters of ‘Alpha’ and ‘Beta’ are known, but the ‘Aleph’ and ‘Beet’ of the Hebrews may be less widely known. The Semitic ‘Beet’ represents the floor plan of a house and our letter B still shows us the two rooms of this house. Every letter in fact is a picture of something and often correlates with words which use that letter to convey that meaning.

Over the years the letters may have transformed somewhat by flipping either to the left or right or upside down. So the letter A, known in Greek as ‘Alpha’ and in Hebrew as ‘Aleph’, was originally a pictogram of an ox’s head. If you turn the letter upside-down and return it to its original orientation as an Egyptian hieroglyph and the two horns and face of an ox appear. In the Hebrew alphabet ‘Aleph’, like all of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, is supposed to have mystical significance. ‘Aleph’ is composed of two yods with a diagonal letter waw (or f) connecting the upper, hidden qualities of God and the lower visible presence of God in the visible world. 

In some instances, some of these symbolic interpretations may actually contain something genuinely insightful or even revelatory. The letter ‘Yod’ for instance or ‘Iota’ in Greek, as in ‘not one iota’ or ‘not one jot’ as the smallest letter represents the immense power of God and the single, smallest point of the microcosm from which all creation emanates; it is also significantly, the first letter of the ‘tetragrammaton’ YHWH or ‘Jahweh’.

In his book The Palm Tree of Deborah, Shelomo Alfassa describes the attainment of the highest level of the tree of life, Kether or Crown, though like so much of the Kabbalah this in itself is an inconsistent claim since it was said that in the Zohar that Moses himself had only perceived as high as Tiferet and the Patriarchs Malchut, so from this we are to assume that the higher Sefirot are probably off limits to humanity, yet Shelomo apparently is able to explain the attainment of Kether, the highest emanation closest to the infinite and unknowable Ain Soph.

THE LAST BATTLE

 

The 9th of Av 3830. A day of desolation. The cooling bodies, of those who were not already long dead of starvation, filling every street, sometimes piled as many as four or five high, were so numerous that the dying did not even have their own place to fall and tumbled into a grave made up of other people. For three days, without rest or seemingly any pause, the Romans had murdered. Peace would come only for lack of more victims. There were sobs of the fallen and those whimpering and forlorn whom the Romans could not even be bothered to kill; these sounds were accompanied by the gasps of pain of the dying and their final passing gave rise to a brief note of peace. 

As the days passed the initial frenzy of the Romans’ fury had passed until the massacres started to have all the gusto of a bored scribe or clerk. Their arms wearied from chopping down defenceless pilgrims: old men, the women and children, as by the end of the day, the scribe tires of holding his reed pen. Lazily but with implacable determination and resignation to a now tedious task the murders continued. All around was the sound of sudden screams which reached his ears and now the Romans hacked with a lack of discrimination so as to almost appear disinterested in their work.

None had been spared, the killing continued long after all had been assumed already killed. Those who had come to Jerusalem in celebration only months before had been only celebrating an early and bloody death.

The amount of blood issuing from the holy Temple was not to be believed, heaps of bodies seemed strewn like empty wine-skins while their blood carpeted the white marbles stones all the way down to the bottom of the sanctuary steps. The number of bodies grew deeper into the Temple and the most bodies were found carelessly clustered around the altar and piety had neither protected them nor prevented the Legionary’s arm.

The peak of chaos, lawless anarchy, disobedience and blasphemy and been reached and had manifested as Roman swords. With the mass death and the destruction of the city, the series of ritualised obscenities and dark satires which had been performed in the city in the name of its defence and that of the Jewish people, had come to a close and the curtain had come down on this fateful and awful chapter.

These are the stories they told but now none are alive who remember the day we lost our temple and lost our city: Great and Holy Jerusalem. How anyone lived to tell this tale cannot be known except perhaps the Romans didn’t quite find everyone’s hiding place, yet for those that hid and survived: to live to see such sights it might have been better to die.