Freethinker's corner

In the past our government found it necessary to experiment on citizens of this nation clandestinely. From the administration of LSD to soldiers, without their knowledge, to the non treatment of certain groups of black people with syphilis just to see how the disease progresses.

I don’t believe the government is the only agency that is experimenting with people. I suggest that business is attempting to create a more pliable and submissive work force by introducing certain treatments, perhaps via immunization shots to the public. If you can create an individual who will do what he or she is told, without question, and to submissively accept assignment to any duty and to accept dismissal on a moments notice due to poor economic times what a treasure that would be for business. Throw in qualities like the inability to relate to other people, thereby saving time by maintaining silence instead of talking to others, extreme focus and single mindedness, and the perfect factory worker is created.

Just so happens that autistic individuals have many of these qualities. Just so happens there have been many more autistic individuals found than in the past. Just so happens.

Panic in the stock market! This has been coming for a long time. Indeed, people have been trying to talk themselves into it for years. All the process needed was a catalyst to start the dominos falling.

Houses don’t sell for a one quarter of the year and there you have it: a downward spiral which is fed by fear.

The reasoning: House sales have plummeted. The real estate market has dropped. Things must be bad, so, put off buying a house. Houses don’t sell. Things must be even worse, better put off buying that house a while longer. Real Estate plunges even more. Wow, aren’t you glad you didn’t buy that house? Better wait till the market gets better, everyone, before you buy that house. Housing market goes to hell, wonder why?

This process applies to all commodities, not just houses. It is true that humans do a lot of suffering, apparently, they also create a lot of their own suffering.

I went to Ohioelectionscentral.com which was promoted on the local AM radio station as the place to observe local ballots. There were only two parties represented. I know of at least two more parties that are supposed to be in the race.

Where’s the choice, when the choice is "bad", or "worse"?

I am waiting on a reply to my inquiry.

The economy of the United States seems in turmoil. The reasons for its apparent downturn are not clear. It seems to be artificially created for some hidden purpose. Confidence in the economy seems to have purposely been denigrated for some purpose. Who does this serve? It may merely be orchestrated by political forces to establish an issue for the coming elections. It seems dangerous and evil to play with peoples financial futures to manipulate an election but it is within the boundaries of human behavior. It has been observed that some politicians are so desperate to obtain power that the country itself might be forfeited in the attempt. The Democratic party in particular seems so inclined. In the past its members have lied and accepted money from foreign sources, such as China, which has attempted many times to influence election results. Supposedly this money was returned, but makes one wonder if other monies, the sources of which are better hidden, were accepted. This whole concept seems to point to the possibility that the Democratic party itself is opposed to American interests. The attainment of power at the expense of all else is not conducive to civil responsibility. It seems that what the Democratic party is saying is that if they cannot have the reigns of power in America, then there will be no America.

Every persons life is like a bus traveling down the road.

A lot of people travel down the same road so it’s like they’re on the same bus.

Some people leave the bus expecting that the bus will always let them back on.

Some people are very disappointed when the bus will not stop for them or has changed to a different destination at which they are not welcome. Others actually think the bus will stop and wait until they decide to get back on.

Sometimes the bus travels to a point where there is no turning back, and access is forever denied those who previously disembarked.

The bus is nearly there. It needs turn but one corner.

If there is one single thing that sticks out since I decided to shed the myths it is the fact that Atheists seem obsessed about the Bible and religion in general.

I have been exposed to more biblical references and thoughts about God since declaring myself an Atheist than at any time previously.

Is there a hidden faction within the Atheist movement itself that is silently promoting religion by directing those interested in Atheism to the Bible? Do many Atheists simply have an unconscious desire that the myth be true despite all the preponderance of the evidence to the contrary?

Free choice is one thing. Providing the necessary information to allow the individual to make a choice about religion may in it’s deliverance create more religious bigots. Teaching individual youngsters such information with the stated intent of constructing mental barriers to it cannot be said to be any more free choice than the indoctrination of pliable minds engaged in by the religious institutions.

Then again, a hands off attitude may leave vulnerable minds to the foils of religion.

What to do?! Should one provide the ammunition a child needs to resist such propaganda, or should one leave well enough alone? Providing the information without hinting at the intent might be more harmful and push more down the drain of religious bigotry. Providing the information with intent removes some aspects of free choice. Religions do this all the time and have been quite successful.

The best possible scenario would be to raise a child without exposure to any religious doctrine and try to instill the concept of thinking with reason. However, such non-exposure environments would be akin to living on a deserted island, with no outside contact, similar to the Amish or Mormon polygamists. This also, would be a form of mind-washing, eliminating some aspects of free choice.

It is truly a wonder that humans are able to relate to one another at all. Each individual over time with accumulated knowledge fabricates their own reality. Although each reality observes the same environment a different view is seen in each case.

For some a thunderstorm is gloom, for others a welcome relief. For some overtime at work is a dread, for others, its that chance to get a new sofa.

Perspectives, outlooks, it’s all in the individual programming one has had instilled by parents, siblings, teachers, and friends.

Misery loves company, and has produced great numbers of whining complainers. A positive attitude displayed in someone actually sickens these people. These whining milksops take great delight in tearing down someone they perceive might have a positive outlook.

It has been said should an alien species finally make it through the void to our speck of dust that there would be no basis for communication. There is little more relating between the varied realities each person creates. So many opportunities exist for misunderstanding.

Religion may have tried to make it easier to relate between these realities. Unfortunately religion has led to many misunderstandings  between the varied factions. In the end religion created many more problems than it solved and should be discarded.

In some cases individuals create realities merely to escape the reality which is presented. They know their own position is false, and yet it is the only thing holding them together. Sanitariums are full of these people. Self deluded nut cases whose minds are lost to the perceptions of derived realities. With enough time any reality can be made to seem real.

For example: Have you given your car a name? Do you talk to it? Don’t you realize it is a dead inanimate piece of metal whose only movement is made at the command of it’s driver? Granted, this may change someday, but for now that nifty piece of machinery has no consciousness and doesn’t care whether you own it or someone else. If you live or die is of no concern to it. In fact, it has no concerns at all.

Belief is irrelevant.

There are no gods of any kind.

What is believed does not produce what is not.

Blasphemy does not exist. This is so as there are no gods of any kind.

How can you profane a god when said god does not exist?

The only thing that can be said to have occurred is a show of disrespect for a set of ideas fabricated long ago by people who in their ignorance tried to explain natural occurrences that they could not in any other way. Fear was the basis for this construction.

Is it Blasphemy that I refuse to use a capital letter for the word "god"?