Throughout our lives, it seems that we are constantly yearning for more. We want more happiness, more joy, more love, and ideally a whole lot more sleep. Undoubtably so, this desire has existed from the very beginning. From roaming nomads we sought home and familiarity. From civilization onward, we've desired family and thus independence there-from. We gained communities and deism which gave existence a point and formed government and constitutions to protect our lives and our rights. And still we yearn. Still we desire something. Who knows what the future could hold. Perhaps the desire for utopia isn't so foolish a dream after all.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Friday, February 1, 2008
Election 2008
Up until this point I haven't discussed politics much. But, I figure that during this primary season there are a few things that I'd like to see change. They are as follows:
1. I don't want a president who thinks that their god is talking to them, telling them what to do. I beg to ask why one who says this, like President Bush, isn't required to have their head examined. I mean, if I went on TV tomorrow, or even if President Bush went on TV tomorrow, and said that Thor the god of thunder said to invade a soverign nation that was in actuality standing against another country, Iran, which we had a vested interest in seeing depressed, they would've carted him and I off to the nearest mental health facility. I mean, it's crazy that one could be hearing voices from Thor. Enough said. No more god talk.
2. Timetables. I don't want to hear a thing about timetables. What you're saying when you said "timetable" is simply this: We're looking to keep our troops there for a while longer, but I really, really promise that when this date or benchmark is reached, we'll leave. We promise. Give me a break. Leave now. How many more people must die before the timetable comes to fruition?
3. Past drug and / or alcohol abuse. I don't care what you did in the past. I want to know what you do in the present. If anything, past abuse should be seen as a good thing and even an accomplishment to have overcome, if of course, you're not still covering it up.
4. Civil campaigns. I don't want people kissing each other's asses on the debate scene. I want to make up my own mind, not simply get the pre-manufactured candidate that the other candidates, through fault or no fault of their own, have portrayed as better than themselves. Give me a break.
5. Immigration reform. This is not an issue. Ok. Do you get that. We have bigger problems. People are dying. The economy is crumbling. Wall Street is in freefall. Mortgage brokers are screwing families out of their money and their livelihoods. And President Bush is HEARING VOICES!
So then, who do we vote for? Well that's a good question and I'm not going to give you the answer here. That's not what the primaries are for. You'll have my opinion and my candidate for the general election and not before. Now we must vote the way we believe and in the next month or two, we'll know what options we're looking at for the next four years.
1. I don't want a president who thinks that their god is talking to them, telling them what to do. I beg to ask why one who says this, like President Bush, isn't required to have their head examined. I mean, if I went on TV tomorrow, or even if President Bush went on TV tomorrow, and said that Thor the god of thunder said to invade a soverign nation that was in actuality standing against another country, Iran, which we had a vested interest in seeing depressed, they would've carted him and I off to the nearest mental health facility. I mean, it's crazy that one could be hearing voices from Thor. Enough said. No more god talk.
2. Timetables. I don't want to hear a thing about timetables. What you're saying when you said "timetable" is simply this: We're looking to keep our troops there for a while longer, but I really, really promise that when this date or benchmark is reached, we'll leave. We promise. Give me a break. Leave now. How many more people must die before the timetable comes to fruition?
3. Past drug and / or alcohol abuse. I don't care what you did in the past. I want to know what you do in the present. If anything, past abuse should be seen as a good thing and even an accomplishment to have overcome, if of course, you're not still covering it up.
4. Civil campaigns. I don't want people kissing each other's asses on the debate scene. I want to make up my own mind, not simply get the pre-manufactured candidate that the other candidates, through fault or no fault of their own, have portrayed as better than themselves. Give me a break.
5. Immigration reform. This is not an issue. Ok. Do you get that. We have bigger problems. People are dying. The economy is crumbling. Wall Street is in freefall. Mortgage brokers are screwing families out of their money and their livelihoods. And President Bush is HEARING VOICES!
So then, who do we vote for? Well that's a good question and I'm not going to give you the answer here. That's not what the primaries are for. You'll have my opinion and my candidate for the general election and not before. Now we must vote the way we believe and in the next month or two, we'll know what options we're looking at for the next four years.
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Predestination and Free Will
I made mention a while back about my belief that predestination was not real and gave evidence to support this. I used a logic based argument to explain that if there were infinite choices in life that there would be no possible way for predestination to exist. Likewise, I theorized that there were infinite possibilities and therefore predestination could not exist. However, now I would like to take another approach to the subject and perhaps thicken it a bit.
Predestination can exist even if there are infinite choices. Look at it this way... You are only what you are made of. There is no external or "other-worldly" part of you. You are solely what your DNA makes you regardless of what religion tells you, without evidence I might add. Far be it from me to stick clear from speculation and stick to evidence-based scientific fact. Therefore, even if we have an infinite number of choices, we will always choose the one that we choose.
Like I said, we are what we're made of. Therefore, there is no exterior force deciding what we do. Our actions are our own and they are internal. This is free will.
However, you cannot break your own free will. That is the restriction on it. You are free to do exactly what you think is the best (consciously or subconsciously) and nothing more. Free will is your internal decision-making process and no external forces can impact that decision-making process in the grand scheme. Therefore, the decision made will be singular in intent, that of free will, and nothing more.
You are restricted in this way. You cannot interfere with free will. Therefore, your free will is predestined by the content of your internal decision-making process. This is predestination. Predestination and free will are the same thing. You are predestined to chose a course of action but it is of your own free will that it occurs. Free will and predestionation can co-exist and do because they are the same thing.
Predestination can exist even if there are infinite choices. Look at it this way... You are only what you are made of. There is no external or "other-worldly" part of you. You are solely what your DNA makes you regardless of what religion tells you, without evidence I might add. Far be it from me to stick clear from speculation and stick to evidence-based scientific fact. Therefore, even if we have an infinite number of choices, we will always choose the one that we choose.
Like I said, we are what we're made of. Therefore, there is no exterior force deciding what we do. Our actions are our own and they are internal. This is free will.
However, you cannot break your own free will. That is the restriction on it. You are free to do exactly what you think is the best (consciously or subconsciously) and nothing more. Free will is your internal decision-making process and no external forces can impact that decision-making process in the grand scheme. Therefore, the decision made will be singular in intent, that of free will, and nothing more.
You are restricted in this way. You cannot interfere with free will. Therefore, your free will is predestined by the content of your internal decision-making process. This is predestination. Predestination and free will are the same thing. You are predestined to chose a course of action but it is of your own free will that it occurs. Free will and predestionation can co-exist and do because they are the same thing.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
I've Got It!
Talk about a brain wave... I was sitting around here reading past posts and it came to me finally... and as most things do... right out of thin air...
Predestination is real. The butterfly effect is real. From the beginning, everything was planned and everything was going to happen, even in infinity.
The sole realization however is that we WANT it to happen. People see predestination as what we don't want or are forced into, but it's the OPPOSITE. It's EVERYTHING that we want! Predestination is the physical manifestation in our actions of things we based on our genes and our interactions predetermined with others' genes whose result is also predetermined and WE WANT IT. It doesn't matter if it's predetermined so long as we want it.
I'll have more on this later... I have to think it over some
Also- Gun Laws Logic and a little something else.
Predestination is real. The butterfly effect is real. From the beginning, everything was planned and everything was going to happen, even in infinity.
The sole realization however is that we WANT it to happen. People see predestination as what we don't want or are forced into, but it's the OPPOSITE. It's EVERYTHING that we want! Predestination is the physical manifestation in our actions of things we based on our genes and our interactions predetermined with others' genes whose result is also predetermined and WE WANT IT. It doesn't matter if it's predetermined so long as we want it.
I'll have more on this later... I have to think it over some
Also- Gun Laws Logic and a little something else.
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