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Sunday, January 31, 2010

Death

Why so SERIOUS!?!?!?!?!

When I was in the military I volunteered to work for our bases honor guard. I worked with around 30 other soldiers. It was a very difficult job involving many funerals. Because the job involved so much death, every single other member of the group prayed many times a day in groups/circles.

I was basically an outcast from that group because I let it be known that prayer was shown to do absolutely nothing when tested with experiments. People treated me as if I was an evil person. Polite but ever so cautious and distant.

I never realized how scared and unsure people are of death before this time. You see what I really saw was not that people cried for the deceased, they cried for themselves knowing they too would be guaranteed to die as well. They cried because we humans live a short life and a very short time in comparison to the minimum estimates for the age of the Universe. We realized there was so much time that was passed before we first existed that we have missed out on. But even worse, we realize there might be a lot more time that happens after we die that we will miss out on.

Basically we get fucked with a mere 100 years if we are very lucky. 100 years is 100 rotations of our planet (Earth) around our Star (Sun).
100 years and then complete memory failure, followed by total memory loss with a 0.0 percentage chance of recovery. Little fucking primates spinning around on a planet that is rotating on it's axis at 1,040.4 mi/h, is moving around the sun at 18.5 miles/sec. Of Course the Sun we are attached to itself is moving around in our galaxy at a speed of 155 miles/sec so that means the Earth is also. AND of course lets not forget about the fact that our entire Galaxy is itself moving throughout the Universe at a speed of 185 miles/sec. And our little galaxy lives in a tribe of other galaxies. 30 of them to be correct. 30 galaxies sticking together they form something called the Local Group. This group is moving at a speed of 540,000 mph.

AND of course our little group of galaxies called the local group belongs to something called the Local Supercluster. The Local Supercluster that we are a part of contains our little group plus about 99 other groups. This Local Supercluster is moving at a speed of 1,570,000 mph towards a gravity anomaly that is called "The great Attractor". Something that is pulling the shit out of super clusters towards it. Trillions upon Trillions of stars heading towards a giant fucking gravity well at ridiculous speeds, but you are going to have a conversation with the supreme being about a rotting decaying corpse being put into the ground?

It eventually goes on to where super clusters form giant walls, or sometimes called sheets. Until you pull back far enough and we see what is known as "End of Greatness" where everything just looks homogenized and mixed together. But keep praying for comfort regarding compost.

The curious thing is the size of our Universe is rarely associated with the estimated age. The Age is estimated to be 13.4 Billion years. But that does not mean we see for 13.4 Billion years when we look through our most powerful telescopes. Indeed if we look North or South from the Earth we can see for a Minimum of 45 Billion light years in either direction.

The Thin Red Line

"We were a family. How'd it break up and come apart, so that now we're turned against each other? Each standing in the other's light. How'd we lose that good that was given us? Let it slip away. Scattered it, careless. What's keepin' us from reaching out, touching the glory?

Where is it that we were together? Who were you that I lived with? The brother. The friend. Darkness, light. Strife and love. Are they the workings of one mind? The features of the same face? Oh, my soul. Let me be in you now. Look out through my eyes. Look out at the things you made. All things shining.

We. We together. One being. Flow together like water. Till I can't tell you from me. I drink you. Now. Now.

This great evil. Where does it come from? How'd it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who's doin' this? Who's killin' us? Robbing us of life and light. Mockin' us with the sight of what we might've known. Does our ruin benefit the earth? Does it help the grass to grow, the sun to shine? Is this darkness in you, too? Have you passed to this night?

Everyone lookin' for salvation by himself. Each like a coal thrown from the fire.

Shut up in a tomb. Can't lift the lid. Playing a role I never conceived.

Everything a lie. Everything you hear, everything you see. So much to spew out. They just keep coming, one after another. You're in a box. A moving box. They want you dead, or in their lie... There's only one thing a man can do - find something that's his, and make an island for himself. If I never meet you in this life, let me feel the lack; a glance from your eyes, and my life will be yours.

Love. Where does it come from? Who lit this flame in us? No war can put it out, conquer it. I was a prisoner. You set me free. " Narration from the Thin Red Line

I am excited

I see such hope for the future of our world and our species. We ARE a great race! Humans ARE good. We are improving and moving forward to bettering ourselves. It is hard for me because I have a hard time waiting for things to change. I feel like I am living in ancient times. I am just amazed by what I see.

I think for me my biggest problem where we need improvement in our society is with Male/Female. I am a large advocate for female rights. I think mostly because it is the largest group. There are more females than males on the planet. There needs to exist no difference between male and female rights on the entire planet. This is a long ways off but would be a time for great joy among our species. I cannot imagine the level of technological advances a species of this level of equality would achieve. We are working on it. Like I said another time, it takes generations for change to come sometimes. The old retain power to the grave. But the grave will come. There will be a hole dug and a New leader takes charge, perhaps with newer views.

I wonder if the splitting of our genetic path into the separation of two sexes is a common occurrence throughout the Universe? Is it a rarity? Are there ways to repackage genetic information to continue the life cycle that we have not thought of? Can different types of evolution be classified as common or rarer? My shame is in wanting knowledge outside of my timeline.

Would intelligent species who self reproduce understand Love? Would they understand the amazing feeling of another person held against you? Would they live in isolation? For me as a human it would be unbearable without anyone, or at least the memory of a person to hold onto.

The Military

Our military is 100% voluntary. Everyone who joins it knows that it is voluntary. Everyone knows they may have to fight other soldiers from nations with different ideals.

Why do people dread our soldiers going of to war? I served two tours in Iraq and I could not have felt better about the outcome of our mission there. We are currently in Afghanistan as well and I believe in what we are doing there.

Every man and woman who goes there goes there for the fight or to support the fight. I never felt bad about being in their land. I never felt that what we did was wrong. Although my boss at the time George Bush and his buddy who was taking in billions from KBR and Haliburton Dick fucking Cheney did not help the situation at all. Especially considering Bush has a family who is financially vested in Oil and the contract mess with Cheney calls into question intentions.

The fact is that I saw Women with purple stained with dye fingers after voting taking their first breath of freedom in YEARS since losing it to a One Party Political System of Saddam.

The same can be said of Afghanistan. Except the battle is most definitely not about financial resources. It is about human resources.

These people are not allowed to read. The women are not allowed to be human beings. They have to live their life's covered in cloth from head to toe. This is fucking slavery.

The REALLLY fucking sad part is that if you ask a Muslim male ANY Muslim male why do the women wear the covering of their body they will tell you that it is to prevent TEMPTATION.

Which of course begs the question of why don't the men all just wear blindfolds? Or why don't the MEN wear full body coverings as well to prevent the females from being tempted?

Any intelligence with the third grade capability will IMMEDIATELY see the simple poorly hidden gender inequality in the guise of a religious ritual.

I USED to think if only they could live where I live and learn what I learn see what I see. They would see differently. They would champion freedom, equality, science, art, love.

I do not anymore. They ended their path to knowledge when they took the branch of religion. Simply put Muslim Terrorists are just following the Bible Literally. Basically Muslim Extremists are an Armed Westboro Baptist Church.

Young females who are interested in learning the questions of life and gaining knowledge through education are tortured, raped, murdered DAILY DAILY in that fucking country. Many of our soldiers are GLAD to be able to have the chance to kill the living shit out of anyone who supports this idea.

Do NOT pray to bring the soldiers home.
Do not protest our soldiers giving women the chance to taste freedom like you take for granted.
The ONLY peace I want is to see the complete elimination of this type of mid-evil backwards torturous slavery.
What we do there is good. What we do there is just.

Hear me Free Women of the world.

The next time you open your closet to pick out clothing, the next time you pick up a book to read, the next time you get behind the wheel of your car, the next time.....remember what we do over there.

Politics

Politics is a corrupt institution. The only way to ensure that politicians serve the citizens is to pick the officials like we pick jurors in a trial. Randomly. "Fuck Senate duty AGAIN!?!?!" Why do we pick jurors randomly from the population? To ensure no BIAS! Any candidate for office who is willing to take 100 Million dollars in campaign contributions from corporations who have a vested interest in getting a return on their financial election donations is a corrupt fuck.

Are you a Republican? Are you a Democrat? What color is your state?

How pathetic and sad and a terrible horrid example of the failure of our glorious government in the U.S.

To label states red or blue, to say that in all of our infinite wisdom and knowledge we are one party away from a dictatorship.

Two Party System is the ultimate epitome of 1984. You vote for the Bonesman on the left, or you vote for the Bonesman on the right.

Whoever wins, we lose.

BUT what bothers me the very most about politics is religion. More so than financial corruption, more so than keeping it in your pants during your term. More so than the fact that we only have two political parties.

Religion in politics is our biggest failure.

If this is read somehow long after our political system falls, you who read this will know religion and only religion was our downfall.

We use the Scientific method to measure everything in our world. The Television you watch, the keyboard and plastic you are typing on, the electricity powering it all.

We use the Scientific Method to measure everything in our world.....except that is for the special clause on page 452, subparagh G, that states Religion is exempt from the Scientific Method.

Those in POWER in GOVERNMENT pray to imaginary beings. 95% of the Human Population of my Planet (Earth) pray to an imaginary being(s). I am only one of an estimated very small percent. Current estimates put our numbers (atheists) at only 5% of the population of this planet. There are a great many agnostics and spiritualists but very very few Atheists.

My Country rose to power very rapidly. Our landmass was discovered late in the game but it became very powerful due to our amazing government. That government is behind us now.

When we rose to power rapidly we allowed the free exchange of ideas regardless of the idea. Regardless of how daring it was. Slowly we have removed the chains of slavery from those of different breed, sex, sexuality. We try very hard to keep paving uphill towards equality for all.

# Christianity: 2.1 billion
# Islam: 1.5 billion
# Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion
# Hinduism: 900 million
# Chinese traditional religion: 394 million
# Buddhism: 376 million
# primal-indigenous: 300 million
# African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million
# Sikhism: 23 million
# Juche: 19 million
# Spiritism: 15 million
# Judaism: 14 million
# Baha'i: 7 million
# Jainism: 4.2 million
# Shinto: 4 million
# Cao Dai: 4 million
# Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million
# Tenrikyo: 2 million
# Neo-Paganism: 1 million
# Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand
# Rastafarianism: 600 thousand
# Scientology: 500 thousand

What a fucking unbelievable statistic. All of these different religions and no one ever looks around the room to see what everyone else believes and why they believe it? Religion is like a comfort food for the slow fat death.

The reason religion is allowed to exist is because is somehow bypasses the Scientific Method.

Our Government Bypasses Logic to allow fantasy to dictate Law. Our President currently is most certainly a closet Atheist. He is a very intelligent man. Not to say he is not a corrupt Mob bitch Lawyer errr....President. Lets just pretend the Mob DIDN'T buy the plot of land next to his house for free. Anyway moving on.

We use a method of determining how religion plays into our Government called the "Separation of Church and State". This does NOT happen. The majority of our politicians have what is known as an Agenda. They are not in office to serve THE people, they are in office to serve THEIR people.

Just look around at the world and see how devastating religion is. Israel a nation that calls itself a "Jewish Nation" is populated MOSTLY by those who follow the Jewish Religion. Right next door and pretty much all around them are nations that call themselves "Muslim Nations" and pass laws based on their religious beliefs. These countries will destroy each other very soon. Neither country will ever be anything but a one religion country and that is their downfall.

I am done ranting. Here are some quotes from Sam Harris.

"According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the U.S. government believed that the world was about to end and that its ending would be glorious. The fact that nearly half of the American population apparently believes this should be considered a moral and intellectual emergency."
— Sam Harris

-"The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive."
— Sam Harris (Letter to a Christian Nation)

"I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs."
— Sam Harris (Letter to a Christian Nation)

"In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs."
— Sam Harris (Letter to a Christian Nation)

Friday, January 29, 2010

Technological Increase

JOBS! We need more JOBS! Stop listening to the shit that politicians blow up your ass. We are fucked. Royally. In simple terms we are doomed. Horribly.

Technology Increase + Population Increase = Job Decrease

The more we use robots and increase our machinery technology and computers the less a human needs to be involved with a task the less JOBS. Fuck. So what do we do about this? Our population is increasing rapidly. Our Jobs are decreasing just as rapidly. The money is running the fuck out.

PRO TIP

wealth owned
by top 10%
Switzerland 71.3%
United States 69.8%
Denmark 65.0%
France 61.0%
Sweden 58.6%
UK 56.0%
Canada 53.0%
Norway 50.5%
Germany 44.4%
Finland 42.3%

Taken from

http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

This means that 70% of the wealth in the US is now owned by the top 10% of the population. It means we are going to have a devastating class difference that can fuck over what little amount of human morality still exists amongst our own species.

EVO

It's evolution baby. So profound and so curious. From abiogenesis on up. Starts off so small just one little lever balancing back and forth. What I seldom see discussed is the end result of Evolution. The final product of evolutions masterpiece. How far can it possibly go? Is it still considered evolution of a species if that species takes evolution into it's own hands? And then maybe hands it back off again to the AI's?

Where does it lead to this little marvel that creates in the direction of advancement? To what end I ask? What can be our final goals as a species that determines it's own genetic makeup? How much data storage and processing power would be enough?

I once had a discussion with someone about disproving God logically. Lets face it without the added reward of living on forever in the afterlife how valuable would life be worth living if we all just had our memories rot away into the ground and there was never anything more. I am an Atheist and this thought destroys me. Not enough to let religion get a free pass from the Scientific Method.

Omipotence (unlimited power)
Omniscience (is the capacity to know everything infinitely)
Omnipresence (is the property of being present everywhere
Omnibenevolence (Infinite Kindness)

How close to ANY of these attribute can a species get? With the Universe being around for an estimated 13.4 Billion years and the first Galaxies forming less than a Billion years after the estimated formation of the universe that leaves some 12 billion years head start for other species to evolve and to self evolve. I wonder if any of them have attained any of these attributes?

It would seem that the greatest feat an Omega class intelligence would be able to perform is to retain the memory banks of all intelligent creatures that ever existed. Perhaps create some type of alternate dimension to store them all in. I would think any intelligence would come to the same conclusion about a complete loss of information at death. Your memory is who you are. It does not matter what your genetic makeup is. That is just a template. Your experiences and memories are what make you anything at all. To be able to listen to your favorite music in the entire world and then at the end of the song to have it deleted, and any memory of that song ever existing disappearing forever.

Pretty sad shit if you ask me. Fuck.

EMO

Emotional.

Your brain has slots for chemicals to fit into. Emotions are simply that, chemicals fitting into slots. Anger, happiness, fear. These chemicals when combined from the video from our eyes, the audio from our ears, the sensations from our sense of touch, smell and taste, as well as instantly combining in our memories of past events and humans ability to imagine the future and consequences. Memories and experiences.

What separates Humans from Machines is emotions. If only we were able to build a computer that could mimic the human brain in it's abilities. Cameras for eyes, microphones for ears, speakers for speech, sensors for touch, detectors for smell and taste. Very fast memory retrieval. The ability to analyze that stored memory and make predictions with it. Would it truly need to have chemicals that produce emotions? Would it not be able to look at a flower and see beauty, or understand why ordered written music sounds good to humans as opposed to random notes randomly dispersed?

Would it not be able to see the value of existing over not existing? Would it cherish life and it's own life without emotions? Could it think about not existing anymore? It seems to be such an abstract concept. To think about not being able to think anymore.

Maybe what we need is a bad ass computer program for our machine that is capable of combining audio, video, and data from the sensors mixed with cross examining that data from past event memory and future event memory. I mean we do have future event memory inside our human brains. We can set long term goals, plan for an upcoming holiday or impending task.

Could it not be possible to program in emotions into our machine at this point?

The Soul of the White Ant

The Soul
of the
White Ant

by

Eugène N. Marais

This man came to an astounding conclusion about life that we have seen (On Earth). Maybe not why it happens but that it indeed does happen. He wrote about the termite. Simple Science, just observing the termite colonies and drawing conclusions from those detailed observations.

He describes how different termites form different functions of what could be considered a whole creature. Some termites form the weapons, claws , or because they were red and white in color could be considered blood cells! Some are the brains (the Queen). Even something similar to the reproductive system where termites leave the nests to form new nests like sperm and an egg.

You can read the book for free online at

http://www.journeytoforever.org/farm_library/Marais1/whiteantToC.html#contents

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

On Currency

CREAM Cash Rules Everything Around me. Wise words said by method man of the music group Wu-Tang Clan. Money is horrific. It is an ancient idea that unfortunately still exists today. Let me talk about what I use where I live in The United States of America. What we USED to do was to take a certain amount of valuable metal such as Gold, Silver and Platinum and store it in a secure location and print a sheet of paper representing a certain amount of that metal.

We do NOT do that anymore. In the U.S. we use a Fiat monetary system. That is there is nothing that backs the greenbacks. The paper is worth no precious metal because there is no precious metal.

So the question remains. What happened to all of the Gold, Platinum and Silver in Fort Knox held by the Federal Reserve when the system changed of from one where money had value to one where there is nothing that determines the amount of money to print?

Anyways I don't care about the Federal Reserve or the Gold. I AM interested in Gene Roddenberry (who wrote the Star Trek stuff). This mother fucker wrote. He wrote about the future of humanity. He wrote most importantly about a GRAND fucking dream. The dream of humanity overcoming the need to denote value to paper.

He wrote about a future where mankind had no NEED for currency! WHAT A BOLD OUTLANDISH PREDICTION! There are some strings attached though. Hunger, want, the need for possessions. These things were eliminated in Gene Roddenberrys world.

Sorry to say that currently capitalism is the best way to do things. People are driven by wealth. It is what pushes us and drives us to succeed, invent, cure, create. The reward of brushing your tongue against the sugar cube. But what of a world where people were more interested in benefiting humanity than getting rewarded for doing so? What a world it would be.

The Greatest War

I feel emotionally that the greatest war humanity has ever waged was the war of change. The act of forcing someone to physically see your effort to enact change without violence. The act of a Protest.

Protest is something that I hold incredibly dear in my personal belief system. I cannot remember one time that the personalities inside my head have ever attended a protest unfortunately. The courage of unarmed humans to take precious time to stand together in unison to be heard as one voice. Usually facing off against armed police forces and conscripts wearing full tactical gear and weaponry to destroy the protest, and in some cases military detachments. I am very torn between enforcing the law which ensures that the systems continues to flow smoothly, and the people coming together unarmed with one voice to peacefully enact change.

In one sense protest is disorderly conduct in itself. BUT To have to ask permission from the Government to protest, in so many cases the SAME government that you are protesting!?!?! I say FUCK your protest paperwork. I say FUCK your March legalities. I say FUCK permission.

The police forces that are facing off against the protesters work for the same Government that the protesters are picketing.

Here is what I do not understand. Why do the protesters never fight back with non-lethal weaponry? Why is it in nearly every protest I see the protesters get their asses kicked by the police forces? Non lethal weaponry is just that, non lethal. If someone is shooting you in the chest with a beanbag round don't you have that same right to do it back to them?

Aagghg I see where we differ here friend! Call it assault against a police officer who was SIMPLY enforcing the Law, but I FIRMLY believe that during a protest the Protect and Serve Police Force becomes a completely different creature. When protests get out of hand and turn violent, or destructive THEN the riot police should come out in force but to ONLY deal with the people causing destruction. Otherwise it is simply a means to plant a spy to provoke an incident to squash the protest.

Blocking off traffic is not cause to fire canisters of tear gas, mace, and nightsticks. The Government at that point needs to step back and see that the PEOPLE want change and they want it fucking now. It must be pretty God Damned important for them to all gather together and request it. It is hard enough to get people together to help move furniture let alone change the way the Old Men have been running the show.

The old grow up young in one era, but times change and humans age. They try to rule from an aged throne with old ways and old laws.

To try protest with all of your person you need to fight back. There are nonlethal weapons that cause minimal pain and no injury. If EVERY protester were to show up with two water bottles filled with a super slick clear synthetic oil and throw it on the riot police. If EVERY protester were to show up in FULL Riot Gear with riot shields. If EVERY protesters were to simply stand silently and quietly ALL with rifles slung on their backs, with handguns in holsters.

Change would come INSTANTLY. One way or the other. Waiting for the old to die for change is nonsensical. Although no one can outlive an idea, sometimes it can take too many life's lost before the aged die.

The Most Powerful Knowledge

The most powerful knowledge that I have attained in my 32 years is that which is known to us as the

"Scientific Method".

What is it you ask? It is the single greatest achievement that any intelligent species can ever come to. The person who pioneered this greatest discovery for us on Earth was known as Alhazen. Born in what we now call Basra Iraq, he lived during the turn of the first Millenia in Cairo Egypt. Indeed he was alive when the year changed from 999-1000.

Alhazen was a very great scientist. Perhaps one of the greatest scientists who has ever lived on Earth. His contributions to humanity are so incredibly wide and varied it is difficult to list his achievements. For that I will give you the Wikipedia link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhazen

What I do want to give you is Alhazens most valuable Treasure. The Scientific Method. It has not changed very much from when it was first written by Alhazen so long ago. Treasure this as humanities most powerful and valuable possession.

-The Scientific Method-

1. Define the question
2. Gather information and resources (observe)
3. Form hypothesis
4. Perform experiment and collect data
5. Analyze data
6. Interpret data and draw conclusions that serve as a starting point for new hypothesis
7. Publish results
8. Retest (frequently done by other scientists)

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

On Visiting Earth

Where to begin with so much to cover and a lifetime to think? Let me start with what I will be writing about. Your Planet and what it contains. Your world. You.

Politics, War, Science, Religion.

Just a few of the subjects that will be addressed. If you can set yourself aside from your world and come with me to explore it friend, I can promise you KNOWLEDGE unknown to this time. Shall we begin?