THE PLEDGE OF BEREAVEMENTS

The Latest Truisms List...

The purpose of government is to prevent one group or individual from impinging upon the rights of another group or individual. ...I think the U.S. Government has gone a tad beyond its bounds, eh?

Do not hoard. There is enough for everyone now.

We only want for that which is denied us.

Anarchy is the ultimate destination of any positively evolving society.

Mass is resistance to Motion.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do!

The object of true love is not experienced as an opportunity, but a responsibility.

Genuine responsibility is a desired obligation.

Anything, physical or otherwise, is defined by its absence.

Substantive abandonment of convention is evidence of mastery.

Life is the dynamic, creative edge of reality.

Scale is the real life representation of variability within a set.

Dimensions are the stepping stones of the universe.

True dimensions occur at prime numbers.

Truth & Honesty are not the same. One can tell the truth while being dishonest.

When being honest, one must necessarily be telling the truth.

Be honest & life will be easy.

When one truly has something, it is given away without the need for self-consideration.

The notion of implied meaning is the root of misunderstanding.

Racism - The belief that all members of a race possess the potential for specific characteristics or abilities which distinguish it from another race or races.
vs.
Racism - The belief that all members of a race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race; esp. so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races. (prejudice may actually be believing a race is lacking some characteristic more often than possessing one).

Varying accent is an emerging means of conveying context & comprehension.

When presented with a choice, to elect 'not to choose' ensures a path void of creativity, which may be found to be destructive by definition.

The absence of communication between necessarily linked parties ensures conflict.

If you discover that an individual really seems to hate you, you can rest assured that they have already done a significant wrong against you.

Humans hate the most, those that they have done the most injustice to. We hate those to which we have already done wrong; and in that order.

I ask: What is at the heart of our BElieFS?
I answer: a LIE
I ask: And what surrounds those same bELIEFs?
I answer: you got it... BS.

In Case You Forgot: 700,000,000,000. Lets examine that number...

700,000,000,000. I contend that it greatly exceeds our understanding. So, let's see if we can "create" this number, conceptually in our minds...

10. I can see 10 things. e.g. fingers, marbles, people, etc.
10 sets of 10 - get the picture in your mind - so now we have a picture of 100.
10 sets of 100 - stabilize the image of 100... and now 10 of those... we have 1000.
10 sets of 1000 - one thousand... ok, now 10 of those. ...number's getting a little big now...
10 sets of 10,000 - ok, the picture of 10 one thousands... and now 10 of those...

My image detail has now deteriorated - at 100,000. What I mean is, grasp of the size of 1 begins to fade when I try to actually visualize 100,000. I'm sure I could apply myself and go a bit higher; maybe 10 million at the most? The point is, we're nowhere near 700 billion. And this number (not to mention Trillions!) gets thrown around on the news like it's just another chunk of change. Sure, it's a big number, but we've dealt with big numbers before... yeah right.

A $700,000,000,000 bailout? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? Someone is pulling your prick.

Revisiting the Notion of Two

Previously I posted something about opposites and such not too long ago. This may be similar but not the same... Not entirely sure what I'm about to write...

Some previously laid foundation:

In order for something to exist:
It must be able to not exist.
It must be distinguishable from some other .

O.K. So what?
This came about while I was listening to a speech by Ahmadinejad. He was talking about God being all for good, love, rightness, brotherhood, etc. Which, conceptually, I'm down for. I started wonder though, looking at the concept of good, in order for it to exist at all, i.e. for something to be described as good, something else must be not good, right?
When I say not good, what do I mean? Frankly, I'm not sure (haha - not sure).
Do I mean evil? or is neutral good enough? or is it in the grammar... ?
To be good, something else must NOT be good.
or
To be good, something else must be NOT GOOD.
Hmmm... I'm gonna let the brain process this a little bit... I'll pickup here or somewhere else when I next feel like it.
Cheers.

Law Enforcement is getting Out of Control

I've had it with traffic law enforcement. I see police driving around in every type of car under the sun. Vans, pick-ups, Hondas, SUV's, etc. Plus, it seems police cars no longer have to be painted black and white. Now it's white with little blue lettering, "Police" on the side. I don't remember approving that change? Then, the lights are being changed to these low profile ones that are harder to see when not being used.
Most people immediately respond to these things saying, "Well it makes sense! It makes them more able to do their job if they aren't so noticeable. It's easy to spot them behind you with those big lights and black and white paint."
THAT'S THE WHOLE IDEA YOU IDIOTS! We WANT to be able to spot them. If I'm speeding and a cop gets on the freeway behind me, I want to be able to see him so I can slow down. Frankly, I don't give a shit if that guy in the green Taurus does a rolling California stop going through that stop sign. If you're sitting at a red light at 4 a.m. and there's not another car within eyesight in any direction, I don't mind if you go through the red light. The focus Police place on traffic enforcement is ridiculous. Everyone knows it's just a means of fund raising. But no one does anything about it.
I didn't have any change, I was late for an appointment. So I didn't drop a quarter in the meter this one time. I was only gonna be 5 minutes anyway. How is it appropriate that I end up paying $30 because a meter maid happened by while I was gone? No, it's not "just the way it is." It's stupid, it's bullshit, it's wrong. Just because a system is already in place, it doesn't mean we can't change it and make it better.
Although, the caretakers of the current system do not make it very easy to make changes. Anyway, I'm losing focus, but you see what I'm getting at.
And one other thing, we need a "no escalation" law governing traffic stops. If you pull me over for a tail light out, that's what I get, a ticket for my tail light. You don't get to "smell something" and search me and my vehicle. You don't get to arrest me for a parking ticket warrant. You get to write me a ticket for what you pulled me over for. The one exception should be for weapons and weapon related issues, but that's it. We've got to stop this slow construction of the police state. We've got to stop it now.

Yeah, they call it FOOTball. I'm so tired of playing the fool...

The world over, futbol, football, etc. is the sport of choice - of passion. Here we call it Soccer. The claim is that in the late 19th century "Association Football" was reduced + "er" to "Soccer". Umm... o.k.? yeah, right. Around this same period a new game is invented. It's roots lie somewhere in Rugby I figure.
Now, here's the good part, for some unknown reason, someone?, decides that this new Rugby style should be called "Football". Nevermind that there already IS a sport called football. Remember? The one played the world over where you kick the ball with your foot? Hence the name "football". So yeah, the powers that be decided that the new, American, Rugby style game is going to steal the name "Football" - this game where you primarily manipulate the ball with your HANDS and much of the game consists of "SOCking" the players of the opposing team... Soccer and Football reminds me very much of the whole "parkway" and "driveway" nonsense; and all the other backwards language created to suppress higher thought. But I digress...
I think the proposal I'm about to make is pretty obvious. The NFL and the rest of the sport (i.e. amateur/education levels) should be referred to as Soccer. I feel it more accurately conjures the violent nature of the sport, and it is an original name for what is an original sport. Furthermore, what we now call Soccer should from here on, be referred to as Football. It seems when the entire world refers to a game played primarily with your FEET and a BALL, it would be prudent to cooperate and also call the game FOOTBALL when it is played in your country...
Just to be sure we're straight here, think of it this way:
The Dallas Cowboys are a SOCCER team. The Superbowl is the championship game for professional SOCCER. Pele was a great FOOTBALL player. The AYSO (American Youth Soccer Organization) is now the AYFO. That pleasantly plump mom, driving the mini-van is a FOOTBALL MOM. FOOT-ball is a game played with your FEET!
If we want it to, the world CAN make sense. We could park on parkways and drive on driveways. And maybe, just maybe, if we would bother to straighten out all these little bits of insanity, clogging our minds and cross-wiring our brains, we could move forward to some higher, more interesting levels of thought and new ways of being.

US History Part 1

Some radical ideas follow. Remember, they are just that... ideas. Some may see them as blasphemous or traitorus. Understand that I love the USA and am grateful for the priviledged life it enables me to live. I bear no malice towards any in the population or government. That being said...

Question: What is The significance of the year 1863?

Answer: Modern slavery was introduced to the USA.

There was no emancipation. It is no coincidence that the signing of the emancipation proclamation and the introduction of our current paper money system occurred the same year.

The native American population were not very competent slaves. They tended to die when captured and even if they survived, they weren't very energetic, nor responsive to physical coercion. As such, the Europeans were forced to import their slaves from Africa.

The boat ride over was no party... the life they lead was not much fun either. The conditions were so harsh that only those with exceptional endurance and strength survived. The resulting population grew strong. The owners realized that by breeding for strength they could achieve greater efficiency from their slave population as well. So on top of the natural selection, purposeful selection further enhanced the slaves' abilities.

I didn't take long for the slaves to notice that they could kick their owners asses at will. Those non-compliant slaves quickly learned the difference between a beating and a shooting. Guns. Guns were the only reason slavery was sustainable at all. Well, guns and the fact that the slaves didn't have any. Still the sheer numbers of slaves made for a management problem. Well, the owners figured, "If we can breed for strength, we can breed for docility and/or intelligence too." Nigger can read - dead. Nigger says, "Duh." a lot - He's making babies.
So life went on with the numbers of dark skinned workers constantly growing, the population growing ever more physically gifted, a little more compliant, and a bit duller around the edges. There were a few other, unexpected characteristics being promulgated in the slave population as well. ...No, I'm not talking about big dicks... though it does count in this section...

A the ability to maintain 2 cultures with a single population. The the public culture, which interacted with the white people and could be seen in the public at large. Then there was the private culture. This is where intelligence and creativity were kept alive in spite of the owners breeding efforts. Sets of skills and concepts became verbal legacies past down through generations. Some examples:
Determining what a person's dreams and desires are and then how to feed those dreams and desires back to them and manipulate them to get what you want.

The wealth generated by free labor was (is) fantastic. So much so, that the Americans imported as many slaves as possible. The slave population grew rapidly and large.

Perhaps the printing of The Origin of Species highlighted the weakness in their slavery system... A very large and powerful population of people, full of justifiable hatred, was living in the backyards of the ruling class. Any more growth in their numbers and they would become unmanageable, in fact, signs that they were already unmanageable were quite common. It was only a matter of time before a grand revolt was successful. Regardless, more workers were needed to sustain growth. A change was necessary...

The Answer to, "Why is everyone broke?"

Alright, I'm gonna try this one last time. Hopefully this will be clear, short, and illuminating...
The reason everyone is broke is because there is no money to have. i.e. There physically aren't enough dollar bills in the system for it to function properly. Seems kinda peculiar, doesn't it? O.K. so next we ask, "Why?"

Because the system has a fundamental flaw in it's design. Well a flaw if you're on our side of the equation. A tool of control if you're on the other side. You cannot create a sustainable system if you collect interest on the funds introduced to create the system in the first place.

I create a new economy by printing Eric Money and giving you $5000 of it. But it's a loan and you have to pay 1% annually. Seems fair. Well, lets consider... Lets say you intend to pay back the loan within 6 years, by paying $1000 per year, and then whatever interest has accrued. A noble plan for sure... year 1 - you trade with people, etc, etc. and at the end of the year, you've set aside $1k and give it to me. Year 2 - same result - another $1k for me. Year 3 - you have to use violence against children, but you get the $1k - You're half way there!!!!

But you'll never get there. At this point you've paid me back $3,000. That means that there's only $2000 left circulating in our little economy. Even IF you busted some heads and did some magic and pulled together the $1000 each of the coming 2 years, that would be it. There would be ZERO dollars left in the economy. Now how are you going to make this final payment? How are you going to pay the interest? You're not. Cause there's no money to pay it with.

That is fundamental reason the economy is failing and destined to fail (along with the world economy - same principal applies regardless of scale). Although, in reality, it doesn't get to the final stage like the example. In reality, the whole thing freezes up before that third payment was made. See you in hell mo-fo's!!!

About the Nature of Opposites and "negatives"

It is often said that (in theory) for every positive there must be a negative, in order to maintain "the balance of the universe. I posit that this is not the case.

Notice that in order to be a 'negative' the object (for lack of a more general term) must be the 'negative' OF something. Therefore, the existence of an opposite/'negative' is necessarily dependent on the preexistence of a positive.

On the other hand, a positive is an independent assertion. A positive is not a positive OF something, it simply is.

There are further conceptual issues with this idea of balance. Take a number line for example. Let's assign the value of 6 to our object in question. We mark 6 on the number line. To achieve "balance", our mark must move 6 units left (for simplicity) to return to 0 i.e. our point of balance. The problem here lies in the fact that though our object is loosing value with each progressive unit/step back towards 0, it's value is nonetheless still positive - not negative at all. so where is this 'negative'?

It is being canceled by each unit removed in our steps to zero. As such, why are we now counting from 6? as opposed to zero?

Racisim...

Race is a lazy mind's tool for identifying culture.