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  • Beware… March 4, 2018

    alien 5Some say that humanity should stifle itself, not be so noisy and attract possible alien life. Maybe they are correct.

    Evolution produced humanity. As a result humans are violent and react badly to foreign and unusual circumstances.

    A planet where life arises and competition between such life forms does not occur would be unfathomable. All species compete for resources against all other species.

    Humans have made many advancements. Yet they have carried the ancient suspicions, hatreds, and flaws forward with them. War is still a reality. Violence is an everyday occurrence. Competition is fierce. Hatred of what is different is glaringly present. Tolerance, much ballyhooed, is of scant supply even in those that promulgate it.

    Humans must assume all life, should any be encountered of an intelligentalien 6 nature elsewhere in the universe, is of the same origin and therefore carry the same barbaric baggage.

    Although it is more likely humans will encounter machines from other civilizations rather than living forms, even those machines may carry the baggage created by evolution, it having been bequeathed by their creators.

  • Macabre Solution, or No Solution to Guns…February 26, 2018

    The topic of guns in schools is of high interest of late. Many suggest that teachers be armed so that they might react to intruders.

    What is forgotten is that teachers are human beings. AI has not been used in public schools as yet, though one can predict that reality happening as soon as it is feasible. Human beings, every last one of them, have a point at which they could snap and become as big a problem as any mad person that might enter a school. I have known such teachers during my school experience in the deep past. If they had had a gun, woe be unto all of us.

    Some say to post armed guards. They are also human and can only react with human efficiency and judgment.

    All of this is irrelevant though, as many of the anti-gun crowd believe the gun does the actual shooting and it doesn’t matter who has it.

    It has been suggested to have armed volunteers. Humans? That problem has already been discussed.

    So what is the solution? A police state? Of humans? Give up more freedoms for the sake of security? Why not build large prison like buildings and use those for schools? Bring the students in at the beginning of the year, lock them down, and do not open the doors till the school year is finished.

    People are crazy, they always have been, there’s just more of them now so these crazy shootings happen more often.

  • Thoughts On Humanity February 25, 2018

    Here today, gone tomorrow. The transient nature of the life of human beings.

    Nothing is permanent. A building goes up, a building goes down.

    One moment an Oasis, next moment a desert. Ever changing.

    So short is life that one wonders why so many try to make it miserable.

    There is no need for starvation at this time, yet it exists.

    Poverty could be eradicated with the sweep of a pen… but it remains.

    So many exclaim how humanity is a marvel to behold, I can’t bare to look at it.

    Inhumanities to humans are all happening at the hands of humans.

    Why do these people revel in making others’ lives so miserable. Do they feed on the misery of others? Would they not fare better by helping rather than hurting?

    From one generation to the next there is little to no change. One thing remains the same. Inhumanity to humans, perpetrated by humans, is always the same.

    Justice is desired but never attained. The cycle will continue.

  • God Does Not Exist … February 18, 2018

    I am an atheist and I say “God does not exist”.

    “Oh, you can’t say that… there might be a god somewhere!”

    Yes, I can.

    The “gods, or Gods” humans now worship have origins that are known. Even so, since the Jewish god can be dismissed, being impotent (Holocaust) and obviously having arisen during barbaric times (the wars, murders of innocents, and absurdities) then neither Christianity or Islam can be true. We now know how the Christian faith arose, and how it was fabricated from whole cloth. Christianity was needed to control slaves and the general citizenry. Islam is derived from both false beliefs, and so itself is false and easily dismissed (by the wise and non-ignorant).

    What is left? An unknown god? Other faiths whose human origins are known? God as is commonly defined needs worship. There are no unknown gods soliciting worship. Therefore, there are no gods. Yet, there may exist an entity, however improbable, that might have started existence. An entity, a force, but most likely unconscious, unaware of our little speck of dirt orbiting around a very average star.

    Does that make me an agnostic? No, I can say with fair certainty that gods do not exist. Gods need worship. There are no gods requiring worship, though some thing, some force or entity, however unlikely, might have started some ball rolling eons ago. The miniscule likelihood of that can be dismissed, or will be eliminated when the facts are all in, I am sure.

    Remember, no manner of explanation will deter a “true-believer” who accepted faith without reason… how can reason apply there?

  • Being Good, and Being Honest–A Balance…

    Being totally honest at times can lead to being immoral. For example, the doctor that tells the patient that he/she is doomed and there is no hope, even if there isn’t, can completely destroy a person in the last hours, days, weeks of their life… and even hasten death. Better to administer hope, and useless treatments, rather than put them in a state of despair. Being blunt and telling a youngster they have no talent and better prepare themselves for a life in menial jobs can be a recipe for suicide or even a life of crime.

    It is better to tell a fib than the whole honest truth at times, just to be moral and kind. A world where everyone was brutally honest would be even worse than the world at hand.

    On the other hand, lies told to relieve someone of their money or possessions is expressly evil. Lies about people that destroy careers and lives should be as punishable as any murder.

    Humans are flawed creatures. The nature of the beast is one of greed and selfishness. Not to discount the great generosity of some few, but overall human nature is self-centered.

    I would rather have a world where honesty reigned, with qualifications, and each person was more concerned about the outcome of their actions as related to others. Where being dishonest in business transactions, where money is concerned, and in other areas, would be something that simply never occurred to someone. The thought never entered the mind to be deceitful. Too much to hope for, I know, especially in an animal shaped by evolution, environment, and the struggle to endure.

  • New Programming…

    Regrettably, there are some program changes that must be made. This is for my protection. There is a wide swath of the internet using populace that can no longer be trusted. This is the result of feminism and the so-called metoo campaign. Women that I do not know can no longer be trusted… therefore women that I do not know will be given a short message as follows:

    I am sorry, but due to feminism and the metoo campaign I will no longer respond to unknown women on the internet.

    This is the way it has to be.

  • Abnormal is Not Normal … February 11, 2018

    There are many who work daily spreading propaganda attempting to depict abnormal as normal. Just today a “science” site attempted to persuade readers that being mentally abnormal is normal.

    There will never come a time when the corrupt human society will convince me that it is normal for a man to insert his penis in an anal opening. There will never come a time when a perverted witless soul will convince me that two women “making out” is normal. There will never come a time when some twisted logic will persuade me that a man can become a woman or a woman can become a man… they will always be what they were born. All three cases are perverted reality, spun to please the real mentally ill folks who need psychiatric help but are prevented or at least not encouraged to find the same out of some aberration of logic of a-sick minded public.

    Stuck in some old moral frame that should be abandoned am I? Acting against some hidden desire to be like these sick people am I? No… I am acting in the best of light, attempting to preserve what I feel is a dying species.

    Any species that tries to reason that abnormal is normal and that normal is rare is sick and dying. Is that what religion was trying to preserve? Normal? Too bad the religion is also abnormal.

  • Atheism Means Non-belief, and Nothing More…

    Once again I find myself addressing an issue I have addressed before. That is because people still make assumptions. People and groups both make assumptions about the members of their groups. This causes division and destroys the effectiveness of the group.

    Atheism means non-belief in deities. That’s all it means. There is no other baggage included with that definition.

    Yet, there are groups like the American Atheists, the American Humanist Association and others, that decide, unilaterally, what it is you must accept and believe as an atheist.

    The morals I had when I was afflicted with the Christian virus remained the same throughout the affliction and are the same now that I am cured of the affliction. I do not accept those things as normal that I did not before, and I never will.

    I support human rights. I do not support special rights for other groups. Those groups are of the LGBT label. (And whatever other alphabetic letter you want to add to that) I assert these poor mentally ill people are being enabled to remain ill by an acceptance of normalcy. As a caring empathetic person I hold no hatred or grudges towards any. I also hold that it is immoral to withhold needed psychiatric services for the mentally ill.

    Being endowed with human rights does not include the right to engage in any deviant behavior or fetish that you have a desire for. 

  • Only One Group Left Without Protection… January 28, 2018

    There is  only one group left that the public can bully and ridicule.

    Laws protect all minorities and even one majority from being verbally attacked.

    The only group left that the public finds acceptable to bully and ridicule is: White males.

    Say nothing about the new minority that is a majority: women. Say one thing derogatory and you will be chastised till you die.

    Say nothing about blacks, Asians, or Mexicans… or you will be hounded… to death.

    Speak as freely and as critical or ridiculing as you like to and about any white male and the public will look the other way.

    Society has made its choice. I hope it suffers terribly for it.

  • Hopeless… January 28, 2018

    human extinction 5An examination of the human condition reveals that the body human, the collective if you will, is terminally flawed. Aware of its plight though it is, the whole together is incapable of diverting from its path of sure destruction. Without cooperation from the whole, no part on its own can deter the final result: extinction.

    The problem is there are too many captains. Compared to a ship, the human race is dead in the water. It is paralyzed by positives and negatives which sum out to zero. human extinction 14

    As resources and space are diminished conflict will increase. The prophecy of doom is quickened. Even the rats cannot escape the ship… there is no where to go. Depending on how the end is played out, the earth will either become a barren burnt out cinder or a paradise for the animals that survive. Will humanity have one great burst of violence creating the barren cinder, or will it just deflate and pass. For the sake of other creatures, I hope the latter.

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