It's a game I like to play called, if there was one thing you could say, just one thing, and everyone would listen, what would it be. Up until seventeen seconds ago that one thing was this :
"Free Will is an Illusion".
This is a heavy statement, and I invite you to look into it. After a long philosophical debate with myself I have deemed this matter is not worthy of discussion. Free Will is a metaphysical concept and it has no place in a scientific world view. Perhaps this is the final proof that science cannot provide any useful answers for society and man (although I'll have you note it's done WONDERS for the social science called economy (talking about evolution and capitalism here folks)... it akes you wonder, what other complex scientific theories could be applied to economics? Let's see... how about relativity? Too trite... Chaos theory. That's the next big one folks... you heard it here first, our next economic system past capitalism WILL be formed through Chaos theory. But even that's not the big news...
There is no evil, there is only ignorance. You see? You understand? Evil is a fiction... created by man. It's not real. You can't defeat Evil... and yet we've been trying for years. Evil doesn't exist. We have to defeat ignorance. We have to wage a war on stupidity. LETS STOP MAKING GUNS AND START PRINTING BOOKS PEOPLE. Now don't get me wrong... I'm not a pacifist. Ignorance may very well attempt to destroy us in the process; that's how all the books go and let me tell you something, books know things. I mean, one ignorant Ayatollah (the excesses of that religion are almost forgivable for the joy that name elicits when I speak it. I A TOLLA! Sounds like a phrase shouted on mid afternoon hispanic dramas) with a couple nukes and it's lights out for a couple hundred million citizens, which may be just a statistic but it's one I'd give almost anything to prevent.
Listen, here's the point. Let's forget the irrational context of morality and stop thinking in terms of good and evil. Let's work on educating the world and making them rich so they are too busy reading, working and eating well to hate people. Let's also look rationally at the resources this planet has before we expend them all. Capitalism is great for momentary wealth... but perhaps we should look to the first law of thermodynamics instead of Chaos theory (which would ultimately make our economic system more effective and thus more deadly (because we use up all our resources and cant do anything and are stuck on this damn rock)).
Saturday, April 7, 2007
The eternal question answered : fire officially foe
Recently in the Phillipines a fire raced through a village destroying according to CNN "400 homes which housed as many as 1200 families". Apparently the duplex (or triplex) is a universal evil. Just remember... when you bake your potatoe over a campfire, you're baking that potato in something that hates freedom and the Phillipines.
I demand the immediate invasion of the Phillipines and a war on fire and also change the 'terrorist of the month' to catcholic fundamentalists who are harbouring the fire in the Phillipines. Who's with me!
I demand the immediate invasion of the Phillipines and a war on fire and also change the 'terrorist of the month' to catcholic fundamentalists who are harbouring the fire in the Phillipines. Who's with me!
Contact Me!
Are you reading my blog? Do you agree or disagree with what I say? If so (and in case you didn't realize it the answer is guarenteed to be yes for both questions) contact me! Let me know what you have to say. Tell me where I can improve and where I am doing well. Tell me what you as a reader think! Is there any area of international news I'm not covering but you want to know about? Let me know and I WILL cover it just accept the caveat that most of the time I'm not going to agree with you!
Contact me by e-mail at curlyhairedmessiah@hotmail.com or MSN by the same address. I look forward to hearing from you.
Contact me by e-mail at curlyhairedmessiah@hotmail.com or MSN by the same address. I look forward to hearing from you.
Preventing Climate Change as a Consumer
One of the most serious powers we as individuals have in our society is the ability to effect change by our patterns of spending. Companies are not autonomous units, they live to serve their customers. Pollution in industry is a product of only certain types of industries; my blog, for example, emits almost 0 CO2!
We should identify the worst offenders and boycott them until they find ways around their production without emitting green houses gasses. If they don't change, they die out because no one is buying their product and if they do change, the problem is solved. I will be launching a website : "Boycott Climate Change" to co-ordinate these matters, look for a launch in early fall of 2007.
We should identify the worst offenders and boycott them until they find ways around their production without emitting green houses gasses. If they don't change, they die out because no one is buying their product and if they do change, the problem is solved. I will be launching a website : "Boycott Climate Change" to co-ordinate these matters, look for a launch in early fall of 2007.
Good and Evil
All the greatest stories of mankind are about two things. Love and the battle between good and evil. We have become so wrapped up in the story lines here we have lost track of one crucial point; evil does not exist.
Perhaps this isn't exactly true, perhaps a more accurate summation would be "evil is as you define it" but the consequences of either statement are the same. We need to reinvent the language used in governing society in order to more accurate represent what is going on.
Evil is a function of a moral system; that is things become evil when they oppose standards of morality. Moral standards change; if there is any doubt in that you can merely examine the last 100 years in our society in which some of the most rapid changes in moral traditions have occured in our society. Without a system of morals evil cannot exist.
All moral systems currently in place are fundamentally flawed. One flaw is generally they attempt to derive authority from fictional entities (God); this works until people realize there is no God (and they eventually will always stop believing lies). Another flaw is that because they essentially evolve to suit the needs of a nation is there is a great lag between moral philosophies and the needs of the nation.
Are moral systems neccessary? Yes, for the simple reason that a nation without them will not in the long run survive. Let's modernize. Forget outdated systems of morality that are in place and let's design a rational one based on philosophy and accepted base statements that everyone can agree too. Statements like
Freedom should, wherever possible, be increased.
Harm from one individual, wherever possible, should be decreased.
etc.
There is a trend amongst societies. First, they lesser moral restrictions and a period of great productivity occurs. We saw this in greece, rome and the renaissance as well as countless other times throughout history. It is inevitably followed by the break down of social order and eventually the society itself. Our culture must adopt a rational moral philosophy if we hope to survive in the future.
Perhaps this isn't exactly true, perhaps a more accurate summation would be "evil is as you define it" but the consequences of either statement are the same. We need to reinvent the language used in governing society in order to more accurate represent what is going on.
Evil is a function of a moral system; that is things become evil when they oppose standards of morality. Moral standards change; if there is any doubt in that you can merely examine the last 100 years in our society in which some of the most rapid changes in moral traditions have occured in our society. Without a system of morals evil cannot exist.
All moral systems currently in place are fundamentally flawed. One flaw is generally they attempt to derive authority from fictional entities (God); this works until people realize there is no God (and they eventually will always stop believing lies). Another flaw is that because they essentially evolve to suit the needs of a nation is there is a great lag between moral philosophies and the needs of the nation.
Are moral systems neccessary? Yes, for the simple reason that a nation without them will not in the long run survive. Let's modernize. Forget outdated systems of morality that are in place and let's design a rational one based on philosophy and accepted base statements that everyone can agree too. Statements like
Freedom should, wherever possible, be increased.
Harm from one individual, wherever possible, should be decreased.
etc.
There is a trend amongst societies. First, they lesser moral restrictions and a period of great productivity occurs. We saw this in greece, rome and the renaissance as well as countless other times throughout history. It is inevitably followed by the break down of social order and eventually the society itself. Our culture must adopt a rational moral philosophy if we hope to survive in the future.
The truth about Falwell
Jerry Falwell Makes Sense :In an interview on CNN (the segment "What Would Jesus Really Do") Falwell is quoted as saying "I would rather have an atheist who is a top neurosurgeon perform brain surgery on me than the most devout Sunday school teacher". He then goes on to extend this metaphor to the current presidential 'race' going on in America. Of course it is common sense that the best man for the job be elected president (although no one seems to realize that this is probably NOT the person who raises the most money and puts on the most convincing display) and that their personal face should not have anything to do with it but it is refreshing to hear Falwell admit it. There has been a great deal of criticism of the Reverend but I have a rule which is in my blog you are judged strictly on what you're doing now and not what you have done in the past.
I salute Falwell's recognition that America needs a president who is capable and competent not someone selected based on their personal faith; this is one step forward in removing the influence of image in democracy. There is much to be said about how politics has become a competition between sound bites and television appearances. Is this the truth? At no point before in the history of the world has so much information been available about politicians and their policies and at no point before could you hear such an incredible amount of dissenting viewpoints. Has politics become a battle strictly of image? For some perhaps but not for me and if you so choose, not for you.
I salute Falwell's recognition that America needs a president who is capable and competent not someone selected based on their personal faith; this is one step forward in removing the influence of image in democracy. There is much to be said about how politics has become a competition between sound bites and television appearances. Is this the truth? At no point before in the history of the world has so much information been available about politicians and their policies and at no point before could you hear such an incredible amount of dissenting viewpoints. Has politics become a battle strictly of image? For some perhaps but not for me and if you so choose, not for you.
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