I read an interesting article today, you may read it here, stating that scientists have arrived at an estimated 50 billion planets exist within our own Milky Way Galaxy and that as many as 500 million of those planets could harbor life. Read the article for more details, but what I got to thinking about after reading the article was life in general and exactly what is life and what is it's purpose? At age 52, I thought I may as well think about these things now rather than later. I might not have later.
Is not the purpose of life to live? At least long enough to reproduce and then after that who cares if you live much longer? And if it is something else, what is it? In my struggle in life I do what I must do to trade my skill set for money which I then transform into paid bills, shelter and food and clothing and the occasional luxury item. Basically, life is just a struggle to survive, but you know there exists somewhere out there a personal time limit and everyone's got one.
Life is short but only for those who are not suffering. For the suffering there is no life short enough, for a day with suffering is like a lifetime of suffering every twenty-four hours. But we are getting away from the main point.
If in this galaxy alone there are 50 billion planets and of those 500 million could support life, why do the mere mortal inhabitants of this rock think we're so special?
Let's pick one of those planets and ask some questions, shall we?
Q:You, on Omicron Six, do you have religion?
A:Oh yeah! It's the opiate of the people don't you know.
Q:Mmm.. we've heard that somewhere before. Well then, on Omicron Six is there a One World Government over what used to be hundreds of individual sovereign nations sort of like our United Nations does in keeping the peace between civil nations?
A:Oh...Is that what you use that for? We thought...uh, never mind what we thought. Enough of the questions already. We only came here to smoke a doobie with you and chill around the campfire and eat munchies. You guys are so uptight. Anyone have any San Gria?
I guess we are not so special after all. What do you think?
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Sunday, October 03, 2010
Don't Know Much About Christine O'Donnell
In an Op-Ed column by Frank Rich in the NY Times, titled The Very Useful Idiocy of Christine O'Donnell, Mr. Rich opined:
"O’Donnell’s value is the same as that other useful idiot, Michael Steele, who remains at the Republican National Committee only because he can wave the banner of “diversity” over a virtually all-white party that alternately demonizes African-Americans, Latinos, gays and Muslims." (Emphasis in italics mine.) Read here.
I don't know much about Christine O'Donnell, but I do know the Democrat Party is not now, nor has it ever really been, the friend of African-Americans. It took a while, about 30 minutes, but I did find a source for your perusal. Read here.
I also take issue with Mr. Rich's implication about the Republican Party representing the "Wall Street potentates and corporate titans" as if to contrast the good work of the Democrat Party to tax the rich into poverty as an essential strategy of its war on poverty.
There are a lot of points in Mr. Rich's Op-Ed column I would like to comment on, but I am but a simple man, not quite up to the intellectual level he is when discussing politics. Mr. Rich, there is a "real America" out here and it don't give a damn what you think about anything.
"O’Donnell’s value is the same as that other useful idiot, Michael Steele, who remains at the Republican National Committee only because he can wave the banner of “diversity” over a virtually all-white party that alternately demonizes African-Americans, Latinos, gays and Muslims." (Emphasis in italics mine.) Read here.
I don't know much about Christine O'Donnell, but I do know the Democrat Party is not now, nor has it ever really been, the friend of African-Americans. It took a while, about 30 minutes, but I did find a source for your perusal. Read here.
I also take issue with Mr. Rich's implication about the Republican Party representing the "Wall Street potentates and corporate titans" as if to contrast the good work of the Democrat Party to tax the rich into poverty as an essential strategy of its war on poverty.
There are a lot of points in Mr. Rich's Op-Ed column I would like to comment on, but I am but a simple man, not quite up to the intellectual level he is when discussing politics. Mr. Rich, there is a "real America" out here and it don't give a damn what you think about anything.
Scapegoat! Get your scapegoat here!
In a story about books in prisons, ACLU attorney David McGuire hits a nail right on the head. Read here.
"This is yet another case of politicians scapegoating expression as the cause of serious violent crime," said ACLU attorney David McGuire.
Now, let's replace one word with a short phrase. Replace the word "expression" with the short phrase "inanimate objects" and ACLU attorney David McGuire would still be right, regardless of the inanimate objects involved. But, I would suggest that the inanimate object or objects collectively could be firearms or a knife or a rock or a pencil or a pen or a porcupine quill.
The point made by Mr. McGuire is correct. I don't know how many times I've heard someone contemptuously parrot, "Guns don't kill people, people kill people blah, blah blah..." and so on with whatever clever ending to that soundbite they have.
The fact of the matter is politicians do a lot of scapegoating and not a whole lot of anything else.
"This is yet another case of politicians scapegoating expression as the cause of serious violent crime," said ACLU attorney David McGuire.
Now, let's replace one word with a short phrase. Replace the word "expression" with the short phrase "inanimate objects" and ACLU attorney David McGuire would still be right, regardless of the inanimate objects involved. But, I would suggest that the inanimate object or objects collectively could be firearms or a knife or a rock or a pencil or a pen or a porcupine quill.
The point made by Mr. McGuire is correct. I don't know how many times I've heard someone contemptuously parrot, "Guns don't kill people, people kill people blah, blah blah..." and so on with whatever clever ending to that soundbite they have.
The fact of the matter is politicians do a lot of scapegoating and not a whole lot of anything else.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Been Rippin'
What've you been doing?
Hey! Hey! Hey! It's like being stoned!
Where are you when the sun go down? So far away from me.
So far I just can't see. Money for nothing?
Where can you get chicks for free?
I can't live with or without you? Did U2 really sing that?
First time ripper here. Got it going on. Yep! Got it going on.
Been Rippin'
What've you been doing.
Hey! Hey! Hey! It's like being stoned!
Where are you when the sun go down? So far away from me.
So far I just can't see. Money for nothing?
Where can you get chicks for free?
I can't live with or without you? Did U2 really sing that?
First time ripper here. Got it going on. Yep! Got it going on.
Been Rippin'
What've you been doing.
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Complicity
Involvement as an accomplice in a questionable act or crime. With emphasis on the "involvement as an accomplice" portion of the definition, I would say without hesitation that most of the popular major media outlets, and you know who those outlets are, without doubt are engaging in complicit behaviour when they publish "news" stories that somehow contribute to the growing paradigm that citizen is an antiquated term that has been superseded by a more "progressive" dismissive as "the masses."
The individual is dead and really exists only as a small part of a greater whole, whose welfare is determined by self appointed philosopher kings, known otherwise by such terms as Senator, Congressman, Czar and President. City Councilman, Mayor and County Sheriff are soon to be added to the known as also list, you just wait.
Just pick up a newspaper, if there are any still being published where you live, and read a few of the stories. Find one where the government is somehow involved and think about how the role of the government is presented in the story and how minimal the role of the ordinary citizen is portrayed, if at all. Now think to yourself how the portrayal of government squares with the idea that our "elected officials" are our servants.
Like in the Allstate Insurance commercial: Confused? Don't be. That is the paradigm I speak of, where government is everything and we are nothing. It is the paradigm that the popular major media outlets have been complicit in supporting for decades. It is the paradigm they want you to become comfortable with. It is the paradigm that will be used to enslave you and your family, your neighbors and friends. In the end, government will be the Queen and We, the people, will merely be worker ants.
Complicity: Involvement as an accomplice in a questionable act or crime. But the good news is, all the reporters and talking heads who helped bring about the great ant mound will also be worker ants too. Not even they will be spared the disgrace, and in the great crime of enslaving millions in the once land of the free, that may be the only justice one can point to.
The individual is dead and really exists only as a small part of a greater whole, whose welfare is determined by self appointed philosopher kings, known otherwise by such terms as Senator, Congressman, Czar and President. City Councilman, Mayor and County Sheriff are soon to be added to the known as also list, you just wait.
Just pick up a newspaper, if there are any still being published where you live, and read a few of the stories. Find one where the government is somehow involved and think about how the role of the government is presented in the story and how minimal the role of the ordinary citizen is portrayed, if at all. Now think to yourself how the portrayal of government squares with the idea that our "elected officials" are our servants.
Like in the Allstate Insurance commercial: Confused? Don't be. That is the paradigm I speak of, where government is everything and we are nothing. It is the paradigm that the popular major media outlets have been complicit in supporting for decades. It is the paradigm they want you to become comfortable with. It is the paradigm that will be used to enslave you and your family, your neighbors and friends. In the end, government will be the Queen and We, the people, will merely be worker ants.
Complicity: Involvement as an accomplice in a questionable act or crime. But the good news is, all the reporters and talking heads who helped bring about the great ant mound will also be worker ants too. Not even they will be spared the disgrace, and in the great crime of enslaving millions in the once land of the free, that may be the only justice one can point to.
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