tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23573289097208872582024-02-08T12:22:06.394-08:00Wrong HoleNever believe your own conspiracy theory!
Wrongtrouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02023966926900017382noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357328909720887258.post-47916572727942262482017-08-01T09:09:00.000-07:002017-08-01T09:09:27.942-07:00NRA's Nice Shot<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKrrUwTHWxk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKrrUwTHWxk</a><br />
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The first causality of clenched fists is truth.Wrongtrouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02023966926900017382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357328909720887258.post-1783561190381500502017-07-23T18:08:00.000-07:002017-07-23T18:08:43.725-07:00I Have A (Wet) Dream<div class="MsoNormal">
There had
been some discovered sexual impropriety by a member of the extended family, and
as you may imagine, it came up as a topic of conversation. She turned to me and said didn’t you work with
sexual offenders for seven years? Yes, I
affirmed that I had. Well what do you
think about this behavior and what can be done about it? Not much was the short answer. <o:p></o:p></div>
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First,
infidelity is not illegal and extremely common.
His sexual choices were with women over 18 and there was no perversion
that would be defined as illegal, or even risqué. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So, she lamented, there is really
nothing that can be done for a person who constantly cheats on his wife? There is no way to change him? <o:p></o:p></div>
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The changes regarding sexual attitudes
in this country aren’t going to be made by changing one man. They must be made on a societal level. That conversation is not a short one. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Why not, she
wanted to know? I thought that you would
have some answers since you worked with sexual offenders for several
years. What did you do to cure
them? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Nothing cures a person’s sexual
preferences and that is my point. There
will always be people with deviant sexual attractions, just as there will
always be people who own guns who shoot other people. Prevention and how, we as a society, approach
the topic of sex are the only things that really make any difference. There is no way to cure one individual sexual
predator or sexual deviant because the sex drive is innate. As it must be for the promulgation of the
species, any species. If you want to
protect the innocent or affect the behavior of sexual deviants, society, as a
whole, needs a different approach to the topic of sex than we currently
have. That is not going to be easy to do
because there is so much information that needs to be communicated just to get
a basic foundation on the topic. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Imagine it
like this, you are an accountant and I know the basics of what an accountant
does, but if I wanted you to tell me all about accounting so I could do it
myself that would take a long time. Yeah
it would, she said, I would suggest that you go to school and get an accounting
degree. That’s my point exactly. To understand what goes into changing or
preventing deviant sexual choices there is a lot that needs to be covered. But it’s easy for me to grasp that I’m not an
accountant and I wouldn’t understand everything that goes into it. Sex, however, is a different story. Everyone in this room is sexually active and
few people will admit that they are going to need years of serious academic
study on the subject. This is because we
are a sex saturated society. There are
no beer commercials that state, “Sharpen your pencils, because after a few
Coors lights you are going to pay much closer attention to detail and be better
at math.” Beer commercials, most
commercials for that matter, know that sex sells. So, there are beer
commercials in which a woman, defined as beautiful, walks into the room in her
underwear/swimsuit and goes to the fridge to get a cold Coors light off the
bottom self. Bending over at the waist
of course. And she stands up and turns
to the camera with hard nipples and says, “If the mountains are blue boys, your
balls won’t be, because Coors light makes me so horny!” <o:p></o:p></div>
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That is as
laughable as the accounting commercial, except nobody laughs. Instead, lots of guys think, I’ll drink me
some Coors light and then be able to have sex with an attractive stranger. Or something along those lines, all relating (insert
product here) to heightened sexual prowess. The point being that you cannot
retroactively deal with someone’s sexual deviance, in other words, you cannot
unfuck this situation, literally. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The only way
to deal with the problem of sexual deviance, large or small, in our society is
for society as a whole to embrace a movement that changes the way we think,
talk and act as sexual beings. We need a Martin Luther King Jr. of sexual
reformation to be giving a well-attended and publicized speech on the Mall in
Washington D.C. that says,<o:p></o:p></div>
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(in MLK’s
speaking cadence)<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have a
dream!<o:p></o:p></div>
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That I have a
hardon,<o:p></o:p></div>
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And it’s not
as bad as it seems!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have a
dream!<o:p></o:p></div>
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That one day
I will be judged,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Not by the
density, duration, and distance of my pecker!<o:p></o:p></div>
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But by how I
use it in a sexually appropriate context!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have a
dream!<o:p></o:p></div>
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That women
will be judged by the beauty of their character,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Not by the
curve of their booty!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have a
dream! <o:p></o:p></div>
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That we will
one day peddle our products,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Not by the
pedophiliac sexualization of enteral youth!<o:p></o:p></div>
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But by their
utility for the society that utilizes them!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have a
dream!<o:p></o:p></div>
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That will we
define what is profitable,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Not by what
elongates the shadow of our miniscule, inconsequential, individual egos!<o:p></o:p></div>
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But by what
promotes Liberty for all and does not pervert justice as a privilege for the
few!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have a
dream!<o:p></o:p></div>
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But then I
wake up and none of that shit is actually happening. It’s going to be a long road to get
there. We are in the infantile stages of
recognizing and granting all persons their inalienable rights on topics
concerning sex. <o:p></o:p></div>
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What about
the LGBTQ movement and the fact that gay marriage has been legalized? Isn’t that a lot of progress on changing how
we discuss the topic of sex in this country, she queered? <o:p></o:p></div>
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The
legalization of gay marriage and the LGBTQ movement are the embryotic stages of
the reformation that needs to occur concerning how this society addresses
sex. The path that history had to take
to get to MLK’s I Have a Dream speech started with the beginnings of the abolitionist
movement in the 1700’s. To get from
there to the Civil Rights march on Washington in 1963 you had to have a lot of
things occur throughout history. <o:p></o:p></div>
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You had to
have the rise of the abolitionist movement that prompted the Northern states to
outlaw slavery. You had to have the
Unites States pass a law outlawing the importing of newly captured Africans to
be sold as slaves throughout the country.
You had to have Nat Turner’s rebellion and John Brown’s uprising. You have to have Harriet Tubman’s underground
railroad. You had to have the Civil
Fucking War. The Emancipation Proclamation. You had to have the 13<sup>th</sup>, 14<sup>th</sup>,
and 15<sup>th</sup> amendments to the Constitution. You had to have Fredrick Douglas, the Dredd
Scott decision, the race riots in St. Louis, Jim Crow laws. You had to have W.E.B DuBois, Marcus Garvey
and the rise of the nation of Islam. You
had to have WWI and WWII. All of these
things and many more paved the way for the march on Washington in 1963. And the fight was far from over.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Future
generations will ask their history teachers, “Did people really discriminate
because of genitals?” That teacher will
answer, “it was a backward time with a lot of backward thinking. The high electrified dark ages.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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In order to
get to a point where we actually address all the harm that is done in our
society by the way we address the topic of sex, and there is much, will need to
come to a radical new way of thinking about the topic. <o:p></o:p></div>
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That won’t
happen in this country, she stated.
There are too many religious people who feel too strongly on the subject
and they have their holy books to back them up.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That was the
same thing that was said about the abolitionist movement. Many preachers, in fact most preachers,
preached from the pulpit, quoting scriptures about the virtues and God giving
blessing of own slaves. Those holy books
tell a story of time when slavery was a common practice among almost all
civilized peoples. Even Jesus said
slaves should abbey their masters. There
are way more Biblical justifications in support of slavery than there are in
opposition to same sex sexual acts. Yet,
no preacher I know of today stands in the pulpit and gives God’s blessing on
the act of one human being owning other human beings. The people adjusted to new way of thinking
about their holy books and they will again.
And they should. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Well where
and how does this reformation you speak of get started, she asked? <o:p></o:p></div>
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It already
has but there will be a long fight before things are put right.<o:p></o:p></div>
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How do we go
about making a difference now? Do we
just say, fuck it, that isn’t happening yet and there is nothing we can do?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hell no, be
part of the solution. Examine, openly
and honestly your options and beliefs about sex. Be willing to challenge them and be willing
to learn. Don’t do this in
isolation. It doesn’t work that
way. Engage those around on the
topic. That’s how any difference, ever,
has been made. <o:p></o:p></div>
Wrongtrouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02023966926900017382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357328909720887258.post-91985299883027158472017-07-23T17:38:00.000-07:002017-07-23T17:38:21.170-07:00There is no gate, stupid.<div class="MsoNormal">
Stupid
Watergate is a term coined by John Oliver several months ago in a joke about
the Trump administration Russian collusion scandal. The joke was funny and I like John Oliver’s
sense of humor. That being said,
referring to modern political scandals with the suffix gate takes away the
seriousness of the situation. The suffix
gate has lost all meaning in American culture for several reasons. This first
being it’s obvious and hyperbolic overuse.
Second, many Americans living in 2017 do not know or understand their
own or world history, therefore, they do not grasp the full gravity which
should come with the comparison.
Finally, because of the first to reasons, this political age needs its
scandals to have a more well branded moniker as an icon for the current
scandals. I suggest Tower, as in Trump
Tower, the stinking, steaming pile of bullshit upon which the current President
resides in the top floor. From now on I
will refer to this as the Russian Tower scandal.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One of the premises
of Oliver’s joke is the question of whether those in the Trump
administration/family are so stupid as to get themselves tied up in such an
obviously illegal and unethical situation.
The answer is that they are not stupid at all. They have assessed the modern political
reality in the United States with Machiavellian psychopathic clarity. Their analysis, which is sadly on point,
determined that shame is no longer a viable persuasive tool in American
politics. This is a big deal. Without shame as a border between acceptable
and unacceptable behavior, acceptable behavior is redefined in absolute
Machiavellian terms, the ends justify any means necessary. <o:p></o:p></div>
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What killed
shame as a viable persuasive tool in the American Political Theater? There were a multitude of afflictions which
lead to shame’s eventual demise. One is
the daily hyperbolic sensualizing of events on what are considered news
outlets. Second is the relentless
ideology of the profit motive within the corporations that control media
outlets. Third is the ubiquitous
invasion of personal privacy, real or imagined.
Fourth is the partisan divisions which have given credence to black and
white thinking. Finally, the natural
death of nuance that occurs when a people are not adequately taught history and
as a result develop poor long term cohesive planning skills. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The result
has been that American politics and in many cases American life has become an
embodiment of a phrase from the opening monologue of the movie Patton,
“Americans have never tolerated a man who lost and laughed. Americans love a winner! Always have, always
will.” While this sentiment makes an
excellent battle cry for soldiers you are sending to fight and die, it is a
disastrous way for a society to function.
It is this mentality that propelled Trump and his minions to the White
House. Trump’s entire brand is based on
the concept, not the reality, of winning.
Trump succeeds to this end by defining whatever he does as winning. Much like Charlie Sheen. This is the exact approach that his team used
to steal the election and they will make no apology for it. This not making an apology for it is one of
the important reasons why they continue to get away with it. Don Jr. comes out and says yeah, I met with a
hostile foreign government to aide my father in winning the election, so what,
it worked. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The saddest
fact is that the American people are so jaded, divided, overwhelmed, empathy
eroded, sacred, and our system is so corrupt that it will work. It will continue to work for as long as Trump
stays in office and those who follow him will adopt his tactics and increase
them to absurdity and beyond. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This Russian
Tower scandal will be the least of the scandals that come out of this
administration, so I say we do right by our President and his lifelong goal of
promoting his brand and drop the gate and rebrand his scandals
appropriately. <o:p></o:p></div>
Wrongtrouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02023966926900017382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357328909720887258.post-43782864472976621782017-07-07T19:14:00.000-07:002017-07-15T19:33:40.028-07:00Time Traveling Alien Anthropologist<div class="MsoNormal">
He sat down
at my table at the coffee shop where I was reading a book and taking a break
from my bike ride. “What is two plus
two?” he asked. “A mathematical
equation,” I replied. His thin lips
curled into a small smile. I’m visiting
here do you mind if I ask you a few questions<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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No, as long
as I can ask a few myself. Where are you
visiting from?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Form a
distant time and planet.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Really? So, what brings you to this particular
intersection of time and space?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Research, I’m
an anthropologist whose specific area of study is human origins and history.<o:p></o:p></div>
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From the
future, eh? Wouldn’t happen to have a
line on this year’s Super Bowl winner, would you?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Super Bowl?
Is that a reference to one of the primitive contest of speed and strength that your
society frequently and with much fanfare likes to engage in?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yeah, we
shortened all that up and just call it football, but your description is
accurate.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I don’t the
winner of any particular contest but the idea as a whole is part of my study.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Why would you
research bring you to this particular time if you are able to travel to any?<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is what
your calendar refers to as 2017 BC, correct?<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you are
looking for 2017 BC you missed by about 4,000 years buddy. You may need to tweak those dials on your
time machine.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hmm, I’ve
been here for a couple of your weeks and all of the other data confirms that
this is the year 2017 BC.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is 2017…AD
not BC.<o:p></o:p></div>
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AD?<o:p></o:p></div>
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After Death<o:p></o:p></div>
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The death of
what?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jesus Christ<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’ve come
across that name many times in my research.
He is a hero, of sorts. Elevated
to cult status by the superstitious. Revered
with monuments and symbols throughout this society. He gained notoriety when he was executed by
the rulers.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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Never heard
it preached that way myself, but that is the Christ story in a nuthouse. That’s why this is referred to as AD, After
the death of Christ. BC refers to the
time before Christ. What did you think
it meant?<o:p></o:p></div>
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BC stands for
Before Collapse.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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Oh, Before
the collapse of what?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Human civilization
on this planet.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You paint a
rosy picture. You should be running for
office. So, when does human civilization
collapse on this planet? It’s been a
question I’ve been curious about.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The first
interstellar voyagers leave this planet somewhere between 2084 and 2184 on your
calendar. Ancient history is not an
exact science so there is a range given by the best data we could collect. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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What’s so
interesting about this time that you decided to come to now?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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The calendar
years between 2017 and 2024 are the years when the events occurred that
accelerated the collapse of human civilization on this planet. My research is aimed at better understanding
what daily life was like here leading up to those events. <o:p></o:p></div>
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What events
are you talking about specifically?<o:p></o:p></div>
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The dramatic
increase of intra and interspecies conflicts that disrupted the planetary
support systems and made human civilization inevitably unstainable. I have observed that the occupying troops are
already here in great numbers and we know that is one of the accelerants of
violent conflict.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Occupying
troops? Where did you see them at?<o:p></o:p></div>
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They have
been in great numbers everywhere I have gone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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If there were
occupying troops in the United States I would know about them. What do they look like?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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You have not
seen the uniformed soldiers that are openly carrying weapons and drive
specifically marked military vehicles? They are ubiquitous every place I’ve
been on the continent.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I don’t know
about the rest of the continent but I’ve not seen any occupying troops and I
have lived here my whole life. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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There’s one
right there. He pointed out the coffee
shop window at a patrol car that had pulled up to the curb with two police
officers getting out.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Those aren’t
occupying troops, that’s the police.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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What is the
difference?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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The police
aren’t soldiers they are just law enforcement.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Are your laws
so unjust that you need armed and uniformed soldiers to force people to follow
them?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Well, I never
thought of it like that but I guess we do.
It’s just the way it’s always been and they aren’t really soldiers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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They wear
uniforms?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Yes<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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They openly
carry weapons?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yes<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Do they
communicate with a central command?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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They radio
dispatch, I suppose, or dispatch radios them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Are they able
to stop, question, search, detain and execute other persons who are not in
uniform?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Cops do shoot
people. A lot more lately, but they are
not supposed to. They can stop,
question, search and arrest you though. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Are you
allowed to resist them if they do so?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Not if you
don’t want to get shot. You do have the
right to remain silent.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Would you
consider that resistance?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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No, more self-preservation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Then why do
you not consider them occupying soldiers?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Because they
aren’t foreign and they aren’t in the military.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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What makes
them different than the military?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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The color of
their uniforms.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Why does it
make a difference if they are foreign or not?
From my study of your contemporary maps the borders of what you call
countries are primarily arbitrary and fluid. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The borders
are not really arbitrary, they were agreed upon in treaties and such. Also, I haven’t known them to be fluid. </div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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Has your
country always had the same borders?<o:p></o:p></div>
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No, we
started out at 13 colonies and then expanded west.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If your
borders are able to expand then they are also able to contract and that would
make them fluid. What’s the difference
between what you called a colony and what your map defines as a state?<o:p></o:p></div>
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They were
colonies under English rule but after the revolution they became states.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So, the
borders of the country of England used to be on this continent?<o:p></o:p></div>
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I see what
you are saying, the borders have been and can definitely be fluid. But that hasn’t happened for a long time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That’s a very
subjective view of time. What you call
Alaska wasn’t part of this country until 1959.
<o:p></o:p></div>
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I never
really thought of it that way. I guess I
just took for granted that the U.S. has always had 50 states. </div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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Take from me
and I’m a time traveler. Always doesn’t
exist. <o:p></o:p></div>
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How do you
travel through time anyway?<o:p></o:p></div>
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By utilizing
gravity and the curvature of the universe.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The universe
is curved?<o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s a
sphere. It was shaped that way by the
force of gravity.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The universe
is a globe?<o:p></o:p></div>
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That’s one
way to look at it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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How do you
use gravity to travel through time?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Gravity warps
the fabric of space/time. So, a time
vehicle travels by tuning into the gravitational waves of the universe and then
amplifies them. This creates a high
gravitational field centered on the vehicle.
Then you pick an arc of the already established space/time continuum and
you can travel to a different place and arrive in a different time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sounds
interesting. Harnessing gravity instead
of fighting it isn’t something I had ever considered before.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What is it
that you do consider? What do you think
about on a day to day basis?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Shit man, I
work seventy hours a week. I don’t have
all that much time to think. When I’m
not at work I have to take care of the wife and kids. I like to drink a beer and watch ESPN if I
can get a chance. Otherwise I just
follow the scores on my phone. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Doesn’t that
life seem like a flawed system to you?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fuck yeah it
does, but what else can I do. I have
bills to pay.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What do you
mean by bills?<o:p></o:p></div>
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You really
aren’t from this planet. I have a mortgage,
HOA, health insurance, life insurance, car insurance, trash bill, water bill,
electric bill, two car payments, I have three kids in school, my own student
loans, food, clothes, fuel, cable/internet, cell phone, Netflix, Amazon prime,
Spotify, Dollar Shave club, gym membership, and the list just keeps going. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And you must
work to meet these obligations?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yes, and even
then, just barely.<o:p></o:p></div>
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How long do
you have to work before you have meet all of these obligations?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Are you
fucking kidding? These go on for the
rest of my life. <o:p></o:p></div>
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That does not
make any sense. Why burden yourself with
so many obligations that you can never fulfill?<o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s just the
way things are.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hmm. Are
there not enough dwellings available to live in?<o:p></o:p></div>
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There are
plenty if you can afford them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Is there not
enough water to meet the demand?<o:p></o:p></div>
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No there’s
plenty of water in this area but it cost money?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Are there not
enough sources of power or fuel?<o:p></o:p></div>
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No there is
plenty of fuel and power, you just have to pay for it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Is there a
scarcity of places to obtain an education?<o:p></o:p></div>
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No there are
public schools, and charter schools, and private schools, and home schooling is
an option.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Is there a
shortage of modes of transportation?<o:p></o:p></div>
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No, you can
buy a bike, ride the bus, buy a car, fly in an airplane.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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Is there not
enough food to feed everyone?<o:p></o:p></div>
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No there’s
plenty of food. Hell, we waste tons of
it every day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Is there not
enough medicine to treat the sick?<o:p></o:p></div>
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The only
medicine we are short of is the death penalty drug.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What is that?<o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s the
drugs we use to inject people on death row to end their life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Is that
considered a medical treatment?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ha, no it’s
considered justice.<o:p></o:p></div>
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How is it
considered just?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Because they
did bad things, unless they were innocent, which happens occasionally, and they
deserve to die.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Everyone
dies. How can it be considered just to
do something that is going to happen anyway?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Well, they
usually killed people, and murder is wrong so their punishment is to be killed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What’s the
difference between killing them and murder?<o:p></o:p></div>
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A bunch of
paperwork.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I do not
follow.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There’s legal
system and a bunch of paperwork and a trial, so it’s not the same as murdering
someone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You said that
sometimes innocent people are executed.
Is that considered murder?<o:p></o:p></div>
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It should be
but it isn’t. We all know the system is
going to make some mistakes. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So, if the
system makes mistakes it goes on unchanged, but if people make mistakes they
are punished. <o:p></o:p></div>
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If they don’t
have enough money to hire a crafty lawyer.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So, some
people who kill are not punished?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yeah that
happens. OJ is a good example.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What is an
OJ?<o:p></o:p></div>
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He’s guy who
was a football star and then an actor.
He murdered his wife and her lover and he was found not guilty. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So, your
legal system kills innocent people and lets the guilty go free.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It happens.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That does not
sound like a good system.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What kind of
system would you have then?<o:p></o:p></div>
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If killing
people is wrong than a system that doesn’t kill people.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Then they
just stay in prison for the rest of their lives. That doesn’t seem like justice for the people
that they killed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you kill
them do the people they killed come back to life?<o:p></o:p></div>
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No.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Then I do not
see the justice in killing them. What is
a prison?<o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s where
you go if you are sentenced for a crime.
It’s a cage we keep criminals in, kind of like an absurd human zoo.<o:p></o:p></div>
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How does that
help?<o:p></o:p></div>
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It keeps them
away from the rest of society so they can do no more harm.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They are kept
in cages by themselves until they die?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Well, no they
are in there with other criminals.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Are all of
these criminals guilty?<o:p></o:p></div>
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No, I told
you the system sometimes makes mistakes and innocent people get convicted too.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Can the
guilty harm the innocent in these human zoos?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yes, prison
is a bad place no one goes there on purpose</div>
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.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Once they are
there they can no longer contact society?
This is their punishment?<o:p></o:p></div>
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No, they can
have visits and phone calls, and write letters and such.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So, they are
still part of society they just are required to live in a cage?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yes, that
pretty much sums it up.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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How is this
considered justice? What is the good
that comes from this practice?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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It makes the
rest of society feel safer.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Is the rest
of society safer? Has this practice put
an end to crime?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Not by a long
shot. It’s just the way it is. What would you do with the criminals?<o:p></o:p></div>
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I would
examine the most frequently broken laws to see if those laws were, in fact,
just. If they are found not to be just I
would remove them. Of those who broke
the laws that are found to be just I would look to see why that person was
broken and work with the rest of the society to restore them to wholeness.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That sounds
like some hippie shit to me.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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I do not know
what hippie shit is? It is a system that
works for the betterment of all. It has
worked for millennium on my home planet. <o:p></o:p></div>
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A planet
without prisons and cops. I would like
to go there.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You do not
have to go there. You could help make
the same system here. It seems to me
that origins of the collapse of human civilization on this planet are
obvious. More so than I ever suspected
they would be.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What origins
of collapse are you talking about?
Nuclear weapons, global warming, World War III. <o:p></o:p></div>
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All of those
are the logical conclusion of this system.
So, they are symptoms not the cause.
The causes are obvious. You have
more than enough food but people go hungry.
You have more than enough dwellings but people are denied them. You have the technology to promote life and
wellness but you restrict access to it.
Your laws are unjust and therefore must be enforced with the club and
the gun. You believe that justice is the
practice of capturing, caging and killing people. This is not a sustainable system. It will always collapse.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What kind of
system would you suggest?<o:p></o:p></div>
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You feed the
hungry. Provide a safe space to live to
all persons. All access to medical
technology and treatments for all. Clothe
the naked. Provide access to
transportation to everyone. Educate all
persons. End unjust laws. Stop capturing, caging and killing
people. This is the model of every
successful civilization in the universe.
<o:p></o:p></div>
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Where are you
supposed to get all the money it would take to do that?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Why is money
important?<o:p></o:p></div>
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All of the
stuff you said we need to do cost money?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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It cost money
to end unjust laws? It cost money not to
capture, cage and kill people?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Those would
be the cheapest aspects of your plan.
But where would you get the money for the rest of it?<o:p></o:p></div>
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It does not
take money. It takes cooperation.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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I promise you
it would take a great deal of money to get the people who own the food, the
hospitals, and the houses to cooperate with a plan of providing it to those who
cannot pay. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Who owns all
these things?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mostly a
bunch of different corporations.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Corporations
are a cooperative, correct?<o:p></o:p></div>
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In a manner
of speaking.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Then why
would they not provide these things?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Because there
would be no money in it. They would all
lose their ass and go out of business.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Why would
they go out of business?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Because they
wouldn’t collect any money and there would be no profit so they would run out
of money and have to shut down.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Why do they
need money to provide these basic things?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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So, they can
pay the people doing the work and pay for the goods. If they didn’t, people wouldn’t do the work
or provide the goods.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Why would the
people need this money?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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So, they can
buy things.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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What would
they need to buy? They would be provided
with food, medical care, housing, clothing and transportation. <o:p></o:p></div>
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What if they
wanted cell phones?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Then there
could be a cooperation that provides cell phones and operates a cell phone
network.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Why would
people do that if there was no money in it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Because there
is a desire for it and it helps the people of the planet.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It wouldn’t
happen without the profit motive. People
are motivated by the opportunity to make money.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Then the
people need to be reeducated. Do you
think that your form of currency will be accepted on any other planet in the universe?<o:p></o:p></div>
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I hadn’t
thought of that, but no probably not.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I assure you
it won’t. Any other civilization in the
universe who has the technological ability to reach you would easily replicate
your currency and take command of your digital networks as soon as they realized
how easily you are plied with it. A
realization they would come to with a quickness you cannot comprehend. A planet wide system of cooperation that
works for the betterment of civilization, however, is much harder to, if not
impossible to overcome. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Is that what
you plan to do? You came here from both
a distant planet and another time so you must have that technology.<o:p></o:p></div>
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No, I have no
interest in that. I’m only here for
research. Your civilization collapses
and those voyagers you are able to send out before the collapse must seek assistance
from those they come in contact with and therefore already know the wisdom of
cooperation. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Why don’t you
provide us with some future technology to prevent the collapse?<o:p></o:p></div>
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What you need to prevent the collapse
is already here. The change must come from you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Don’t you
have some future time travel technology that could save us.<o:p></o:p></div>
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No visiting
intelligent life form with ever provide you with more advanced technology than
you can develop on your own. This planet’s
first priority would be to weaponize any new technology that they receive and
this would have ramifications, not just for this planet, but the whole
universe. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Is there
anything you can do to save us?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Your salvation
comes from an accurate assessment of your problems and the cooperation that is
required to implement the necessary solutions.
It will never come from an outside source.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So, we are
fucked.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you choose
to be. I have appreciated our
conversation it has provided me insight that will be helpful in completing my
research. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Are you
taking off? Do you have an appointment
that you are afraid you will be late for?
Sorry, time travel joke.<o:p></o:p></div>
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No need to
apologize for having a sense of humor.
It is one of the finest qualities of any intelligent mind.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As he got up
and left my table I took a sip of my now watered-down coffee. Intelligent mind huh? I wonder where I’m going to find one of
those. <o:p></o:p></div>
Wrongtrouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02023966926900017382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357328909720887258.post-85795868611045710012017-07-01T20:03:00.002-07:002017-07-15T19:34:47.864-07:00Buyer’s remorse gets Trumped<div class="MsoNormal">
Every time that Trump does something stupid and disastrous that
will have lasting effects on both our national and foreign policy and disgraces
the office of the President, so about seven times a day. I see yet another article by some news outlet
pondering the question of whether or not the Trump voter will now finally
regret their decision to have voted for him.
The answer is and always will be no.
<o:p></o:p></div>
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This question
is analogous to asking if a habitual lottery ticket purchaser regrets the money
they have wasted each time they don’t win the jackpot. You can sit down every day with this person
and go over the numbers. You can show
them that their odds of winning are miniscule.
You can show them how much money they could save every year and every
decade if they just chose not to spending it on the lottery. This will have no effect on their mindset or
their behavior. Someone who buys five dollars’
worth of lottery tickets twice a week will continue to do so in spite of your
best logical arguments. The fact that
you have worked out the numbers and can show them the facts of these numbers
will make no difference. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This is
because playing the lottery fulfills one of the basest human needs that there
is, it provides a sense of hope that allows the purchaser to continue to dream
impossible dreams. They say that
prostitution is the world’s oldest profession.
If this is true, then in the waiting room of the first brothel someone
started a numbers racket and everyone present bought a ticket. This racket has been alive and well ever
since and it isn’t going to end. <o:p></o:p></div>
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You may be asking me what sense of
hope Trump inspired that would have caused someone to cast their vote for
him? The answer is simple. He said he would make America great,
again. I know that great is an ambiguous
and manipulatable term just like patriotism, which can mean completely
different things to each person, but this doesn’t change the fact that he hit a
nerve.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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The people
that felt America was no longer great don’t have to be completely bigoted,
racist, misogynistic, homophobic pricks.
They just have to live with an underlying and daily sense of dread, real
or imagined. Though I will concede that
a false sense of dread not tied to reality is much harder to overcome then one
based on actual threats. The majority of
those who feel this sense of dread are not ignorant, openly racist
rednecks. They are the pseudo-educated,
who hold certificates of education whose main purpose is the constant reminder
of the debt burden they accumulated for such a privilege. They are those that just signed for a loan on
an overpriced house on the “right” side of the tracks. Those who make $75,00 to $150,000 a year and
still live paycheck to paycheck. Those who
do whatever it takes to get their children into charter schools and still feel
that their kids won’t have it as good as they did. Those who distrust and dislike law
enforcement but still put blue lights out on their porch in solidarity because
they believe that the alternative to militaristic law enforcement is to be
overrun by those who are worse off than they are. <o:p></o:p></div>
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These people
believe that the “system,” however they define it, is and has for a long time
been rigged. The reality of the
situation is that they are right, for all the wrong reasons, and the reasons
fucking matter. Trump played to these
fears and promised to be something different.
This is what jumpstarted his campaign for President. He was able to win because he was the perfect
storm of the American illusion. Trump is
the icon of modern extravagant wealth.
He’s a thin-skinned braggart that believes his wealth is the source of
meaning and purpose in life. He openly
states that this wealth is a sign of his betterness and that he is therefore
entitled to act as he pleases in all situations without fear of consequence or
retribution. Something he believes he is
entitled to dole out to others on a daily basis. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This sales
pitch is not new. It has been the mantra
of monarchs and depots throughout long course of human civilizations. If you want a biblical reference for the same
type of herd behavior look no further than the people of Israel beseeching God
to provide them a king. They perceived
that they were surrounded by overwhelming threats both foreign and
internal. They willing gave their
functioning form of tribal democracy for the presence of a strong leader. In spite of the warnings by their own
prophets of what type of destruction such a leader always does to their own
people. If you want to know the
aftermath of this horrible decision read Kings and Chronicles. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Many of the
people in the United States today feel those same pressures the tribes of
Israel felt, and have turned to the same solution. It is my opinion that much of this fear is
real even if it is grossly misplaced.
The constant cycle of endless consumerism driven debt coupled with a
digital permanent record of all financial and personal failings that can and do
occur over a lifespan of seventy plus years.
Removes a sense of wellbeing from most individuals that is impossible to
get back. In a vain and misguided
attempt to do so we elected a blowhard charlatan who promised greatness with
even not knowing what the term meant. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I believe
Trump as President will cause much great and irreversible damage to the once sovereign
country of the United States. He already
has with his actions in the realm of foreign affairs. This so-called, travel ban, just being the
latest blow. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Our Statue of
Liberty proudly proclaims, “<span style="background: white; color: #222222;">Give
me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The
wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost
to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Yet, we as a people have forgotten that those masses are not supposed to
remain forever tired, poor and wretched.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222;"> As
the wealth gaps grows daily by leaps and bounds, between the wealthiest few and
the rest of us. The gap between those
who are just getting by and those who aren’t closes just as rapidly. This is the real terror that we should be
waging a war on. Yet we are giving up
our freedoms that allowed for us to prosper together. In exchange for a false
sense of security, which we will find out to late, is going to be our
undoing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> The
Trump voter can see all this happening but they will still never regret their
choice in the ballot box. This is
because, just as the lottery player, they never truly expected to win. They voted on the outside chance that
something other than their worst fears would become reality. When those fears and more, do become reality,
which they will, those who voted for and still support Trump will recite the
same tired excuses they were taught in place of an actual education. It would have been worse if we elected the
other one. </span>Wrongtrouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02023966926900017382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357328909720887258.post-81063468926308270992017-06-03T06:56:00.001-07:002017-07-15T19:36:04.655-07:00Hippocratic Oath vs Capitalism<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
The
Hippocratic Oath taken by medical professionals and capitalism mutually
exclusive. Once you introduce the idea
of health care being a profitable business you remove the health and the only
thing anyone cares about is making money.
To see how this violates the Hippocratic Oath on several levels lets first
review the modern Hippocratic Oath.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c33; font-family: "gentona-book" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt; letter-spacing: 0.85pt;">I swear to fulfill, to the best of my
ability and judgment, this covenant:</span><span style="color: #2c2c33; font-family: "gentona-book" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.85pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c33; font-family: "gentona-book" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.85pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps
I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to
follow.<br />
<br />
I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures which are required,
avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.<br />
<br />
I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that
warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the
chemist's drug.<br />
<br />
I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in
my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.<br />
<br />
I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed
to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in
matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it
may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be
faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must
not play at God.<br />
<br />
I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a
sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic
stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care
adequately for the sick.<br />
<br />
I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.<br />
<br />
I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to
all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.<br />
<br />
If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live
and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve
the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of
healing those who seek my help.<br />
<br />
</span><a href="http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?page=3330"><span style="color: #2c2c33; font-family: "gentona-book" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.85pt; line-height: 107%;">Written in 1964 by Louis Lasagna</span></a><span style="color: #2c2c33; font-family: "gentona-book" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.85pt; line-height: 107%;">, Academic Dean of the School of Medicine
at Tufts University, and used in many medical schools today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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To see how every part of this covenant
is incompatible with the profit motive we will take it one part at a time. First, I will respect the hard-won scientific
knowledge of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such
knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow. Profit motive is incompatible with the
concept of sharing. Therefore,
everything from medicine to vaccines to genes are being patented. Those who hold the patent will not share
their knowledge they will only sell it to the highest bidder. Who in turn will pass this cost on to those
in need of treatment. If you cannot pay
you do not receive treatment which directly violates other parts of the
covenant we will discuss later. The
reason that sharing is part of the covenant is because it is this sharing that
allows health care to progress in ways that provide a healthier and more stable
society. If you take out the sharing
part and replace it with the profit motive then health care moves only in
directions that can be capitalized for profit and not in the best interest of
the patient receiving care or society. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This brings us to the second part: I
will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures which are required,
avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism. The first thing that the profit motive is in
direct conflict with is, “for the benefit of the sick.” In a for-profit health care system, this
becomes for the benefit of the owners of the hospitals, treatment centers,
pharmaceutical companies, patent holders, and shareholders. This then changes all measures that which are
required to, only the measures which the patient or the patient’s insurance
will pay for. Medical care in a
for-profit environment does not avoid the twin traps of overtreatment and
therapeutic nihilism, it exacerbates them.
The more you proscribe the more money you make. This is evident in the pill epidemic in this
country. As for therapeutic nihilism,
this is forced to be a medical professional’s fallback position when a patient
doesn’t or runs out of money. They say,
“There is nothing more we can do. All
the other treatments that are available are expensive.” Which again violates the entire second part
of the covenant.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This brings us to the third part: I
will remember that there is an art to medicine as well as science, and that
warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife or the
chemist drug. Nothing erodes sympathy
and understanding faster or more completely that a focus on the bottom line of
turning a profit. This is why CEO is
such a psychopath laden position. Medical
professionals are put in a no win scenario when they are trying to be
sympathetic while saying “I’m sorry but your insurance doesn’t cover that.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The fourth part states: I will respect
the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the
world may know. Most especially must I
tread with care in matters of life and death.
If it is given to me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a
life: this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and
awareness of my own frailty. Above all,
I must not play God. This part of the
oath is about trust between a medical professional and their patient. This trust has been compromised as the public
comes to see medical professionals as salesmen.
This has given rise to such theories as undisclosed cures for illnesses
that require long term treatment and are often fatal. This belief only has a foothold if the
patient feels that the medical professional must consider profitability when
considering how to treat an illness. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The fifth part states: I will remember
that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being,
whose illness may affect the person’s family and economic stability. My responsibility includes those related
problems, if I am to adequately care for the sick. If viewing a patient only through the prism
of their medical chart can reduce the medical professional’s empathy towards
them as another human being, then worrying about turning a profit will do this
tenfold. If instead of worrying about
the affect an illness will have on a patient’s economic stability the medical
professional must consider their ability to pay then they are unable to
adequately care for the sick. This is
because not all the options for treatment will be viable, only the ones that
the patient can afford.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The six part strikes directly to the
heart of this matter when it states: I will prevent disease whenever I can, for
prevention is preferable to cure. While
someone cannot be turned away from an emergency room with a life-threatening
illness, they are consistently turned denied preventive medical treatment due
to inability to pay. This is the most
common and obvious violation of the Hippocratic Oath in service of the profit
motive.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The seventh part of the oath states: I
will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to
all my fellow human beings, those of sound mind and body as well as the
infirm. The profit motive trumps any
obligation to other human beings, special or otherwise, as shown above.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The final part of the oath states: If
I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live
and remembered with affection thereafter.
May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling
and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help. This part of the oath is violated in its
entirety due to the violation brought on my subservience to the profit motive
as stated in the first seven parts. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">All
of this is to say that introducing the capitalistic concept of running health
care is mutually exclusive from adhering to the oath which is the foundation of
the profession. I do believe that
medical professionals should be paid well for the service they are task with
providing. What needs to be completely
removed from the health care system is all the leeches attached to it. These include, but are not limited to the pharmaceutical
companies, the private hospitals, and the insurance companies. These entities are making a killing by
killing off the health of a nation by focusing entirely on the health of their
own bottom line. </span>Wrongtrouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02023966926900017382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357328909720887258.post-17324626079117307762017-05-31T20:20:00.000-07:002017-07-15T19:37:17.029-07:00The bludgeon of personal responsibility<br />
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For two
and a half years I was forced by the state that I live in to participate in mandatory
alcohol counseling once a week. At the
end of this expensive and monotonous journey I was required to answer the
question of what I had learned through forced therapy. I answered truthfully, as follows: <o:p></o:p></div>
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<li>·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">All the circumstances in your life are your
responsibility.</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span></li>
<li>·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">All systems of authority and authority figures
are legitimate.</span></li>
<li>·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">It is your responsibility to endure any mistakes
made by authority figures or systems of authority.</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">The reasoning being that if your choices had
not brought you in contact with the system you wouldn’t be as subject to its
mistakes.</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Therefore, the mistakes of the
system are your fault.</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span></li>
<li>·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">You have no recourse against authority so you
must except it.</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Not accepting it is a
choice you make and therefore the punishments you must endure for not accepting
the systems rules are your responsibility.</span></li>
<li>·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">All systems of authority are in place to benefit
all of society and that is what they do.</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">
</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Not accepting this as a fact is just another way of dodging personal
responsibility.</span></li>
<li>·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Punishments imposed by authority/system must be
viewed as for your and society’s benefit.</span></li>
<li>·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Punishments can only be avoided if you are
wealthy, famous or both.</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">If you point
this out you are avoiding personal responsibility.</span></li>
<li>·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">If you are identified as avoiding personal
responsibility you will be punished further.</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span></li>
<li>·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">You are only being personally responsible if you
acknowledge that all the circumstance in your life are your responsibility.</span></li>
<li>·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">This continuously circular logic was put in
place to help you take personal responsibility.</span></li>
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My answer was not well received
and if I had not served the maximum amount of time in forced therapy I would
have been required to continue with said therapy. The maximum amount of time in forced therapy
is set by a dollar amount. The law
states that the for-profit therapy centers that provide this “service” in place
of the government agencies can only make you pay up to a certain dollar
amount. It is completely coincidental, I
was informed, that my reaching this dollar amount coincided with my completion
of treatment. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This idea of so-called personal
responsibility has long been the mantra of the oppressive. It is as oxymoronic as any mantra found in
Orwell’s 1984. The underlying
philosophical assumption is this, your failure to submit to authority is
completely responsible for all your failures or shortcomings, if you submit
completely to authority by taking personal responsibility you will succeed in
all your endeavors, if you fail just remember, your failure to submit to
authority is completely responsible for all your failures and
shortcomings. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This is a brilliant tactic
employed by those in power to remain in power because it absolves them of any
responsibility whatsoever. It has been
employed most successfully by organized religion. It should come as no surprise that this
perverted system is at the foundation of state mandated treatment programs
since all of them are just Alcoholics Anonymous lite. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Alcoholics Anonymous is a
Christian religious organization that just took the Christian logo, i.e., the
cross, off the cover of the organization.
While still adhering to most fundamental dogma of religious
institutions. We can play a little game
to show this is easily applied in the context of religious dogma.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</b></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>All the circumstances in your life are your
responsibility.</b> <o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "courier new"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">o<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->You were born with free will so everything you do
is your choice. Extenuating circumstance,
such as you not choosing to be born, be damned.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><b>All systems of authority and authority figures
are legitimate. </b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "courier new"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">o<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->God is all powerful and all-knowing and infallible. Just like any Republican candidate.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "courier new"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">o<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Anyone who is in a position of authority was
chosen by God and God knows best.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</b></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>It is your responsibility to endure any mistakes
made by authority figures or systems of authority. The reasoning being that if your choices had
not brought you in contact with the system you wouldn’t be as subject to its
mistakes. Therefore, the mistakes of the
system are your fault. </b> <o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "courier new"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">o<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->The flaws in creation are only flaws because you
are not doing what God wants. <o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b>You have no recourse against authority so you
must except it. Not accepting it is a
choice you make and therefore the punishments you must endure for not accepting
the systems rules are your responsibility.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "courier new"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">o<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->God is God and you’re not so quit your bitching
and die painfully as is his great plan which you just are too stupid or
wrongheaded to understand.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><b>All systems of authority are in place to benefit
all of society and that is what they do.
Not accepting this as a fact is just another way of dodging personal
responsibility. </b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "courier new"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">o<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->God is doing all of this for your own good. God would be completely fine if you never
existed but he took it upon himself to allow you to exist. So, no matter how ridiculous that existence
is shut the fuck up and endure it, because it is for the best in some
to-be-determined long run.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> <b>
</b></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Punishments imposed by authority/system must be
viewed as for your and society’s benefit.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "courier new"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">o<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->God has everyone’s best interest at heart, even
terrorist, because he loves us all so much.
So, if your life sucks it’s because God wants you to learn some shit and
change your ways. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> <b>
</b></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Punishments can only be avoided if you are
wealthy, famous or both. If you point
this out you are avoiding personal responsibility.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "courier new"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">o<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->God has his favorites. They know who they are and you’re not it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> <b>
</b></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>If you are identified as avoiding personal
responsibility you will be punished further. </b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "courier new"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">o<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->If you continue to not accept that all things
that happen are God’s good will then you will be forced by God to endure more
bad shit. The choice is of course up to
you except that God is in complete control. <o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b>You are only being personally responsible if you
acknowledge that all the circumstance in your life are your responsibility. </b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "courier new"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">o<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Once you accept that you are the cause of all
things bad and God must punish you for this, because really, what else does he
have to do, then you will be able to better endure your lashes. By the grace of
God, of course. This continuously
circular logic was put in place to help you take personal responsibility. Thank God, it’s required!<o:p></o:p></div>
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This idea of using the concept of
personal responsibility as a state sanctioned self-flagellation device to keep
the public in line is not limited to mandated so-called treatment
programs. It is most notably used in the
political arena whenever a politician or political group is advocating for
removing access to goods/services from the public and turning them over to the
corporate for-profit sector. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The personal responsibility mantra
of these politicians is condensed for repeated commercial consumption and it
sounds like this: “If you can’t afford said goods or services that’s your
fault. Americans (insert flag waving
background here) have a responsibility to turn a profit at all costs and if you
can’t live with that then just go fucking die already.” The true root of this mentality isn’t even
about monetary profit/the economy. It’s
about power. Restricting access to
health care, education, information, food, water, and living facilities are all
effective ways for those who have the power to remain in power while
restricting access to power from everyone else.
If they can get you to spend your whole life in constant terror of
losing what little you think you have then you will never organize so that
everyone can have more. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s funny to me how they continue
to pull this trick off. They use anecdotes
about this individual or that individual who at one time, supposedly, ripped
off a system in which all people had access to necessary goods and
services. They then say that no one can
have access if they don’t pay or everyone rips off the system and it
collapses. I say if the system is that
easy to collapse then it is a flawed system and should be replaced. The other side of the same coin. They parade around a lifestyle of the rich and
powerful and tell you that if you are careful not to upset the system you could
one day be one of those people. That is
complete bullshit, yet they again use a narrative that all of those who have
money and power now, at one time didn’t, so that means you have a chance of
getting it too. Just don’t rock the
boat. Take personal responsibility for
not having money and power and someday you just might. That is complete bullshit.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This truth this they shouldn’t have
such concentrated access to that much wealth or power. No one should. It should be in the hands of the people, with
many checks and balances in place to assure that it does not fall into the
hands of the few. The truth is that
systems that concentrate wealth and power also collapse. They always have, always will. The problem being that when that system
collapses it comes at the cost of the lives and welfare of millions. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The few Haves know that if even a
third of the Have-Nots would organize together their power would wane until it
was inconsequential. To smash such
efforts of organization the Haves use the bludgeon of personal
responsibility. Personal responsibility
is a fucking myth. We didn’t get here of
our own devices and we don’t exist or flourish on our own. The closest example modern society has to the
effects of real personal responsibility is solitary confinement. Anyone who has seen solitary confinement, as
I have, or experienced it, know that it not only destroys the physical body but
also the soul and mind of anyone subjected to it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Humans were not made to exist or
thrive on their own. No matter what
fairy tales you believe, even Adam was going crazy in the paradise of the
Garden of Eden until he was given some human company. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Do we make mistakes? Yes, of course
we do, but we don’t make them as isolated individuals devoid of context or
extenuating circumstances. We make them
together and as a result the solutions do not come from us just accepting
personal responsibility. The solutions
are rooted in the group effort that occurs when we realize that we do not exist
and cannot exist or act alone. When come
together all the problems of life will not go away but we will find that they
are not compounded the way they currently are with this personal responsibility
bludgeon. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So, my “therapist” asked if I was
not forced by the state to take “personal responsibility” for my so-called
alcohol addition/problem, which in America is defined by Prohibition era
standards of abstinence only, how would I have gotten “help?” I responded that there are several other ways
to deal with this, and many other issues, that are empathy building as opposed
to isolation intensifying. Examples
include models such as Victim Offender Reconciliation Programs in which,
instead of being forced once a week to watch bad propaganda videos from the
1980’s with a bunch of strangers who I never see again while drinking reheated
bad coffee, I would actually sit down with the members of my community who I
interact with and discuss with them the effects my drinking has on their and my
life from their prospective. I could
also share my thoughts and feelings with them.
This is much more effective because I see and interact with these people
daily and will continue to do so. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This type of program increases
empathy and tends to move away from extremely harsh and Kafkaesque punishments
and penalties. It also increases the
accountability for all parties who are effected.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The “therapist” wanted to know if
this is so effective why isn’t it being implemented? That was the easiest question to answer. Because this sort of a program is not
conducive to turning a profit. It
requires all the participants to be volunteers and the mediator is paid for by
the state. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The bludgeon of personal
responsibility, however, is extremely easy to leverage for a profit. The individual is forced by the state to
accept the state’s definition of rehabilitation and then must do so on the
state’s terms. Which are paying fines,
paying for “treatment”, paying for classes, paying for the “opportunity” to do
community service, paying for sobriety monitoring, paying for assessments,
etc. These services have been lobbied
for at the local and national level by companies that then step in to provide
the “service” in place of the state.
These corporations are then invested in keeping individuals in the
system for their profit, which they hide under the guise of “safety of the
community.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Let me ask you this, does anyone really believe
that any community becomes safer as more and more of its individuals feel more
internally focused, isolated, stressed, and trapped? The answer is no. But it does turn a profit! So all you have-Lesses keep swinging that
bludgeon of personal responsibility into your own skull and do as you’re told,
because that’s your responsibility! </span>Wrongtrouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02023966926900017382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357328909720887258.post-409063537796544662017-05-16T19:42:00.000-07:002017-07-15T19:39:22.710-07:00Jesus takes a stance on Slut-shaming<div class="MsoNormal">
I have said it from the pulpit and I shall say it again, I,
like Jesus Christ, have never had a disparaging word to say about a slut. Many people seem to have taken issue with
this statement so It’s time we look to our biblical text to see the holy truth
of this statement. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Our first
example comes from John 8:1-11. “And the givers of the law and the Pharisees
brought before Jesus a woman caught in the act of being a slut. They said to Jesus, this woman is a slut and
the law says that she must be stoned. When
Jesus realized they weren’t talking about taking bong rips, Jesus said unto
them, ‘He here who does not like to get a piece of ass should chuck the first
rock.’” The sacred and infallible weather report of that day states clearly
that the air was rock free. Then Jesus
said to the woman, “Who here has condemned you? No one, she replied. I didn’t think so, said Jesus. You have any plans for later? You’re welcome
to come over to my place for some Netflix and water.” Then Jesus and I lived happily ever after, or
at least that’s how I remember it. <o:p></o:p></div>
Wrongtrouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02023966926900017382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357328909720887258.post-65408875395103569852017-05-14T18:21:00.002-07:002017-07-15T19:41:17.153-07:00Dependable President Trump<div class="MsoNormal">
There has been several news stories lately about the amount
of extra money that has gone into the travel budget for President Trump. In the spirit of the ole cloak and dagger,
black ops mentality, that permeates the Trump presidency. They have refused to disclose what all this
extra money is being sent on. However,
here at the Wrong Hole Blog we have insider sources extremely close to the
President himself, i.e., nursing staff who have leaked to us the exact nature
of these extra expenses.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As we
all know President Trump is the oldest elected president in the history or the
U.S., and even though he claims a fortune of billions, he cannot escape the
slow and embarrassing march to the grave.
This includes his loss of bowel control.
Now this happens to lots of people as a natural part of the aging
process and is nothing to be ashamed of, but in classic Trump brand style the
President has really went over the top when it comes to taking care of this
need. And this is where the added expense comes in. <o:p></o:p></div>
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President
Trump must have his Depends Adult diapers made to order for the Midas addicted
Real Estate mogul. All of his diapers
come in the color gold but that is just the beginning. He has the elastic waist band embossed with
the Presidential Seal and then each separate pair is hand crafted with the
wording of his choice. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Some of
Trump’s favorite decals for the back panel of his diapers include the first
amendment to the constitution: “Congress shall make no
law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the
right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a
redress of grievances.” These are
usually his early morning diapers, the ones he wears while tweeting at
3am. They are not his only custom
style. He also has different pairs that
include the 3rd through the 10th amendments.
Our sources also say that on April 15th he exclusively wore the diapers
with the 16th amendment on them. We
have also been told that he ordered his staff to have his next order of Depends
include the Declaration of Independence, and many parts of the Constitution.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The
front panel of all his custom Depends are the same. Just pictures of naked, under-age Russian prostitutes. With a prostrate his size (It’s Yuge), he
needs to use anything that helps him be able to go. <o:p></o:p></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Now
if we could just find a way that was as effective at containing the shit coming
out of his mouth, the entire world would be a much safer place. </span>Wrongtrouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02023966926900017382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357328909720887258.post-70291101079904553542017-05-12T20:44:00.000-07:002017-07-15T19:42:44.350-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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TRUMP'S REVERSES REAGAN'S LEGACYWrongtrouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02023966926900017382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357328909720887258.post-22709061653094146882017-05-11T10:19:00.001-07:002017-07-15T19:44:25.304-07:00American Military Coup of 2017<div class="MsoNormal">
“Right now we have an armada heading toward North Korea,”
President Trump. This statement by the
current Commander In Chief was proven to be the opposite of true. The armada in question was sailing away from
North Korea. This is actually a big
deal. All of the regular sources of
American/World continuous advertising tried to make the case that this was just
a gaffe. There was even some discussion
about this being a communication mix-up, or a statement that was true, just not
when he said it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What
was never once mentioned, as is corporate media policy, was the truth. This was blatant proof of the successful
military coup that has taken place in this country. Let us consider the facts; the POTUS is the
Commander-In-Chief of all American military operations. This means that if he makes a statement about
what the military is doing it better damn well be happening. The military, American or otherwise, demands
a rigid structure of chain of command that is to be followed unquestionably and
to the letter of its orders. For a
member of the military to do otherwise is misconduct and if that soldier were
to do the exact opposite of his order it would be an offense for which he would
find him/herself, minus Toto, but very much in Leavenworth, Kansas. Probably occupying Michael Vick’s old
cell. Yet this did not happen.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When it
was brought to the public’s attention that there was no armada sailing toward
North Korea, and that the ships in question were actually sailing in the
opposite direction only the President was said to be in the wrong. The President’s public relations staff scrambled
to provide an explanation of how the President was making an accurate
statement. Most of their explanations
ran along the Magellan line of thinking, i.e. the ships were going to North
Korea but they were circumnavigating the earth to get there. Or, even less believable, they were sailing
to North Korea by the usual maritime route of sailing around Australia
first. All woke folk know this is
complete bullshit.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The
implications of a direct order from the Commander-In-Chief being defied in such
an obvious manner have served to turn Trump from the President of the United
States in the Parrot of the United States Military. Hence, vis-a-vi, ergo, a successful military
coup has taken place. This direct and
publicly acknowledged violation of a direct order is not the only proof that the
military controls this once sovereign nation.
The fact that Trump’s often stated, and seemingly only attainable goal,
is to increase military spending should have been seen as another white flag of
surrender by civilian power. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This
creep of insidious military control in our society has been going on for quite
some time. The undemocratic election of
Parrot Trump is the culmination point of what has been a several decades long
process. The military’s momentum gaining
power play was to convince the American people to declare a War On Drugs. This came during height of the most recent
age of American civilian protest against unwarranted and excessive military
power. Those profiting off of military
operations realized that they could no longer openly engage against sovereign
nation states with the compliance or complacence of the American public. As a result they changed strategies. They began classifying their military targets
as consumable natural products, i.e. some drugs. This lead to the creation of the paramilitary
branch of government operating openly on American soil, the DEA. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Once
the American public began to read about and see on TV, these military
operations on American soil, and they accepted them unquestionably, in fact,
encouraging them. The military began to
take its next step to militarize the law enforcement branches on the federal,
state, and local level. Any protest
against this was silenced by the notion that this militarization of public
services was necessary to win the war against inanimate, consumable objects,
aka some drugs. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The
military did not have to change the time tested propaganda in order to gain
support for this war. They drew the
battle lines as always and said ‘you are either with us or you are with the
drugs!’ The well-oiled propaganda
machine that has been up and running since the Second Great American Power
Grab, continued to run as smoothly as ever.
In order to increase the fear needed to gain compliance from the general
public, sensationalized horror stories became the common fodder of the news
feeds. Fear mongering, ambiguous claims
about the stated enemy of this war were required reading in the public
education systems. As always, youth
groups were organized to lead the fight for the hearts and minds of the people. All the while being used as human child
shields against any critique of the war effort.
This program was so successful that every public and private institution
threw its full support into the war effort in hopes of getting a ticket aboard
the money train. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Efforts
to show the patriotism of the aforementioned institutions included, but was not
limited to, the creation of drug free school and work zones. This was a blatant lie, drugs were readily
available in these places, but never free.
Mandatory drug testing for students, athletes and wage slaves became
common and accepted practice. The legal
system, taking its cues from their military master’s, took full advantage of
this war, and the profits came rolling in.
Profits, not only monetary, but also in the form of a lever of control
to return semi-free citizens to their former position of absolute slaves. Social and economic mobility became more and
more restricted, while the marketing companies, as obedient entrepreneurs, sold
simultaneously, the lure of glamourous disobedience and the false sense of
security of blind obedience to all unwitting participants caught in this
fabricated struggle. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The
real military genius of this war wasn’t the age-old techniques applied to wage
it, but rather the way in which it was declared. By declaring a war whose battle lines are
drawn by arbitrary economic restrictions of long used consumable goods, those
waging it could keep the fighting going for the foreseeable future. This is due to the fact that the enemy in
this case cannot surrender. Not unconditionally
or otherwise. An inanimate object, that
is a naturally occurring plant in many cases, perpetuates the war simply by its
very existence. <o:p></o:p></div>
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IT has
taken well over 50 years, but the American citizens have begun to recognize the
arbitrary nature of the battle lines in this conflict and have begun to
challenge the long-established demarcation lines of the war zone. In the future the war on drugs will come to
an end. Not because those waging it will
be able to claim victory. They never
intended for there to be a victory. The
goal was endless and exponentially profitable warfare. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The
military industrial complex saw that this war could possibly have an endpoint
so they made sure to start another one.
This one will be much harder to ever end because it is a war on a
feeling. The feeling of terror. The battle lines of this conflict are not
only arbitrary they are also fluid. Today’s
terrorist will be tomorrow’s ally.
Anyone can and will be denounced as a terrorist on any grounds. And anyone who stops being terrified will be
called unpatriotic and moved automatically into the classification of a
terrorist. The same, you are with us no
matter what we say or do, or you are an enemy combatant, black and white
thinking, is being employed to wage this war.
<o:p></o:p></div>
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This,
no end in sight, ever expanding war, was giving a golden egg laying bird in the
form of Parrot Trump. He is
Commander-In-Chief in name only. He
repeats was is told to him and he pushes for expanding the war on every front
as he has been instructed. This is what
a military coup, stated or not, looks like.
Everyone born in the U.S, since 1970 has been born into a war-torn
country. Now that the military is firmly
and unquestionably in control, this status will be expanded to include everyone
on this planet. <o:p></o:p></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> The
only way to stop the fighting is to stop the feeling. If, we the people, want this conflict to end
we must actively not engage in it. This
starts by looking in the mirror and not fearing what you see. This comes from embracing the mortality of
all things, including feelings, ideas, and power structures. Only together, with concentrated and
determined, mass disengagement from the front lines of this conflict we can
force a surrender by those who profit from this conflict. If we together change the definition of what
is profitable, those to whom profit is sacred, will follow us instead of the
other way around. </span>Wrongtrouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02023966926900017382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357328909720887258.post-81180071377762339502017-05-10T09:47:00.000-07:002017-07-15T19:45:19.133-07:00Immortal Advertising<div class="MsoNormal">
She asked me what I thought the future would be like and I
answered her honestly.</div>
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We will live in a society where there will be no more
advertising. </div>
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No more advertising?</div>
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That’s
right. Once advertising reaches it
complete saturation point society, as a whole, will revolt against it and it
will be outlawed, completely. </div>
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How will
we know when advertising has reached its complete saturation point? </div>
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When you go to pay your respects to your
deceased loved ones and there is a scrolling screen on the headstone that reads
as follows: <o:p></o:p></div>
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Bill-May 6<sup>th</sup>, 1957 to April 30<sup>th</sup>, 2017. Bill was a veteran of The War on Drugs, The
War on Poverty, The War on Christmas, and the Terrorist Wars. He was a brave soldier who died with an
honorable credit score of 775. Bill
passed on his soul-crushing debt burden to his wife Jessica and their three, double
mortgaged, debt consolidated children. Did
you like Bill? Then you may also like
Ashley, Susan, Charles, or Nathan. This
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Thank you for grieving with McWallyHalXon, proud sponsor of the White House. Bill ask that you remember him in the most
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