Monday, October 11, 2010

Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum Joined at the Hip



In this age of terror threats you have the President and VP on stage together. How dumb is that. I really only say so because if anything happens we will have President Pelosi - and how scarey is that.

Now, on the other hand, after the election, if the Rebublicans take the House, these two twits can walk down the middle of the streets of Bagdad hand in hand for all I care.

Friday, October 8, 2010

Is there proof for evolution as a universal law or only a localized phenomena?

1. Carbon based life forms seem to exhibit the characteristics of evolution on earth.
2. Have these same qualities been tested and confirmed anywhere else?
3. Have life forms other than Earth carbon based been shown to exhibit these characteristics on earth or anywhere else?
4. Have any life forms other than Earth carbon based been discovered and tested?
5. What conditions would have to exist for such life forms to exist?
6. Is physical mass required for life?


If there were any other life form would we even recognize it as being a life form?

Thursday, October 7, 2010

American Thinker October 8, 2010

Amanpour Inadvertently Exposes the Real Issue with Islam
William Sullivan

Recently, Christianne Amanpour hosted a panel discussion meant to explore the misunderstood delineation between moderate and extremist Islam.

A dichotomy is certainly brought to light in discussion, but considering Amanpour is a staunch Islamic apologist, it is probably not the one she meant to expose. She likely sought to support the notion that Islam is peaceful, and to advance the belief that only a small contingent of radicals corrupts the faith. To those ends, she enlisted guests of Christian and Muslim backgrounds for her panel, and I'm fairly certain she expected the Christian guests to attack Islam as an intolerant faith bent on universalizing Sharia, while her Muslim guests and audience members would defend themselves as peaceful practitioners of the tolerant faith of Islam.

Americans are familiar with the strategy. It's the standard stuff that tends to make Christians look intolerant and Muslims look misunderstood.

To Read the Full Article:

(www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/10/amanpour_inadvertently_exposes.html)

My view on Nihilism:

nihilism: the refusal to believe in 'God'or a creator. The belief that there is no inherant purpose to life and that what ever is, is simply the result of ramdom sequences of events with no purpose or design attached to them.

In other words:

The 'big bang' was a chance happening that simply occured due to some unexplained random underlying phenomena taking place. All other sequential events occuring as a result of the initial explosion, were and are chance occurances with no rhyme nor reason attached to them other than the possibility of developing a more viable entity useful to the original organism's chances of survival. Though why and how evolutionary processes came into existance from that initial explosion and spewing of debris across the universe is unexplained other than to assume that the initial spark of life randomly figured out it needed to develop more attributes (one of which was to multiply itself) to insure its survival.

Humans have no purpose to their existance other than that which they give themselves as dirived from their own imagination and conceit on the value of said existance. Humans are, by nature, a construct whose appearance was for the sole purpose of giving monkeys a better chance at survival. Whether humans exist or go extinct makes no difference to the universe as a whole. Any rights, priviledges or responsibilities an individual, family, society or group of humans may feel they have or are owed are simply an extension of their individual or collective imagination and is directly related to their survival and enhancement as a successful product of ongoing universal processes. Nature does not give nor infer any rights on any human any more than it would on any other existance. Any belief in 'natural law' is simply a tool used by humanist, secular 'non-believers' to explain why anyone should be treated 'fairly' in a godless, inherently unfair and unforgiving universe.

The concept of 'natural law' is an idea useful for controlling mobs and ensuring the lifestyle comforts and safety of the alpha and beta (alpha wannabes) ruling class. A tool used by the alpha class to assist the general rabble in understanding their place in the universe and how to 'properly' climb the social ladder without ripping the throat out of the previous alphas as is done in every other species, including monkeys AND 'natural' man. Those in the alpha position hate change as it is a threat to them; thus the purpose of the philosophy of “Natural Law” is to prevent ‘unregulated’ and ‘illegal’ social change as much as possible. This product of human 'social' evolution, a 'civilized' view of natural law is, of course, only effective in areas of society where these restrictions are recognized by a subdued general population. There is the underlying fear that given the breakdown of civilization, this view of natural law, it actually being itself un-natural, will breakdown into its true 'natural' form - the survival of the breeders fittest for improving the general stock and ensuring the next level of evolution.

There is the possibility that humans may reach the point when they could artificially self-manage their own evolution. There are a myriad of possibilities in this concept all the way up to humans being able to manage the whole of the universe to their liking. This does not seem likely however simply based on the adage: shit happens. And nature, for the foreseeable future being in the driver’s seat, may come up with an evolutionary entity to protect itself from us: an ‘anti-human' rather like an anti-virus.

Two thoughts:

Heidegger views Nietzsche’s metaphysics as a perfection of nihilism.
Postmodernism in conjunction with television seem to make nihilism socially acceptable.

It is then quite understandable why modern western intellectuals cannot see beyond the rational logic of nihilism, and yet, due to some underlying calling within themselves, feel a need to find a greater 'metaphysical' purpose, goal or value out of what should be seen as infinitely more complex yet little more than the completely natural process of fruit fermenting into alcohol on a universal level.


In other words: no daddy, great protector and provider - you're on your own bubba. Keep your head down and your eyes open.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Weeding out the Weak and the Idiots at Rutgers

Hazing, harassment and bullying - time honored social institutions for weeding out the weak, sick and socially unviable. I do not really see why people are so shocked at what Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei did. University freshmen are not really famous for their grasp of reality. Such things happen at university, afterall isn't that what pledge week is all about?

A student died, rather killed himself, because he was a victim of such airheads who thought, if you could call it thought, it would be fun to screw the roommate socially as he was being screwed physically. Sad for the family of the student who killed himself - pretty stupid act on the part of the idiot doing the filming and he will no doubt pay for that stupidity.

I certainly would not want my sex acts with my girlfriend or wife broadcast on the internet for all the world, friends and family to comment on for years afterward. That, however has always been what our society is about; whether the person is involved in a 'normal' act or socially unacceptable act, people do notice and some react in ways you may not appreciate. You had better be able to buck up and move ahead or you are going to get crushed.

A hard lesson to learn and one to which many do indeed fall victim. It happens in the family: parents beat up on children and between brothers and sisters; in society between groups: the 'ins' and 'outs', the 'haves' and 'have nots', the 'jocks' and the 'geeks' and even between nations - like China bullying its neighbors. The weak are victimized by the strong. This is no shock. If you want shock, just wait til they start accepting openly gay guys into the barracks of the US military - it could be mass murder.

Do you want to change it? Stop it? Start with your own callous behavior towards others.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

I don't 'feel' your pain, Todd.

"Todd Henderson, a corporate law professor at the University of Chicago, prominent college law professor's posting of his family's finances on the Web to make the case that they're struggling to make ends meet -- despite their more-than-$250,000 income."

Oh, the poor baby doesn't 'feel' rich. Tsk, tsk.

Where is Augustine's "City on the Hill" and who lives there?
And perhaps more importantly: How do they live - with each other?

不知彼,不知己,每戰必殆 (孫子)

(If you don't know yourself and if you don't know your enemy,
then you are in for a world of hurt!)


γνῶθι σεαυτόν (Δελφοί)

“I couldn’t imagine this ... world.
Hell is so big and dark and heaven is so small." HJM

"the U.S. has a little manifest destiny over here,
and a little more manifest destiny over there..."

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How About a Bill of Responsibilities Rather Than A Bill of Rights

What if we chose the wrong religion?
Each week we'd just make God madder and madder.