***NOTE*** Wow just found this, I should listen to my own words now and again, I wrote this ages ago too, around 4 years ago. Maybe if I had taken heed of my own advice I wouldn't be so f**ked up. Why is it always harder to take heed of your own advice, well it is for me I suppose the truly gifted individuals know how to use it for their benefit. Maybe I will one day too, who knows.
Good ideas and policies will inevitably die, unfortunately good ideas and thoughts can turn out to be bad, as newer and better concepts are understood.
As long as we stay a democratic capitalist society we will start to stagnate, like the empires of old, they lost their power and are replaced by newer fresher ideas. This happens less and less these days and causes the stagnation. Hence all the good democracy and capitalism has created, begins to be used for greedy, me, me, me, motivated reasons.
Until society accepts that the only way we are going to progress as a planet, we need to get away from the attitudes of greed and selfishness. Everyone has the right to be who they are and not to be told what to do or what to think.
Until people are able to free their minds from the prison that surrounds them, and are able to comprehend the power that they can unleash their full potential will never be realised.
The planet is in a dangerous situation, it is close to the brink, it is slowly smothering itself, large group’s hell bent on forcing all to believe in what they believe.
These groups think they are speaking for the majority, they are not, they are speaking for a very small minority and they are through fear and coercion, controlling the masses, like a shepherd looks after sheep. We are not sheep we do not need to be lead, we need to be inspired.
People except living in a cage, they may not see the cage but its there all around them. Smash the cage and you will find true happiness. Suffer the cage and you may have times where the pain is not noticed but it always comes back no matter what you try to do or achieve it never goes away.
You need to realise you haven’t found happiness until you feel you don’t have to look anymore when that day comes a pleasure beyond imagination will be experienced.
Life is a game of snakes and ladders lots of ups and downs, but you can’t let the downs dishearten you too much and you can’t let the ups have the opposite affect if you learn to enjoy something to much eventually the enjoyment goes. If you sicken yourself, whatever it is, once you are sickened it is hard to appreciate again. Take things in moderation and don’t be worried about not wanting it, pretending to enjoy something when clearly you don’t is the road to oblivion.
Thursday, 16 September 2010
Greed and the Capitalist Society
***Note*** I can't sleep, its a terrible curse, so I might as well add more writing, this one is really old about 4 years ago.
Remove whatever holds you back… And replace it with… Whatever pushes you forward.
Greed, greed, greed, three words everyone knows and loves. How much can I charge you for this, how much for that? We are obsessed with value and we as a race, seem to value materialism and greed above all else. We will quite happily let another human suffer and live in the most horrendous conditions, just so we can have more than we could ever need or want. It seems from my viewpoint that the only thing going on is the rich get richer and the poor well that is obvious.
I know it is an old cliché but by now as a species we should have realised this does not work. Eventually we are going to hit a critical mass, capitalism and democracy will eventually fail, new ideas need to be thought of to combat greed and materialism. We have seen in the past, ages of tyranny, of Kings and Queens, of revolution. We are, as a planet slowly increasing our moralist attitudes now. How is it different forcing a slave to work 15 hours a day or, forcing a mother in a third world country to walk five miles to work, then work a 12 hour day before trudging back for a pittance, so we in the west can have our little luxuries. You may say one is free but which one?
I love my little luxuries, but I’m sure without the greed of large corporations, we could have our luxuries without having to enslave half the developing world to achieve it. Your route to success is not through greed and accumulation of material goods, when did that ever really achieved anything. The more you have the more you want, it’s a vicious circle and it will all end with an almighty bang. Thankfully the internet has in some way developed an open source, sharing philosophy; although not perfect it’s a start of the metamorphosis from greed and capitalism to a kinder attitude to your fellow human. We need to work together to remove paranoia, and a need to horde and collect things. When humans first started to barter and swap goods - that was the most logical way to live life, a form of collaboration, I want this, you want that, I need help with this etc etc. I doubt we will end up with the utopian society they preach on Star Trek TNG but let us try to at least give everyone who lives on this incredible planet the chance to actually enjoy and fulfil themselves with peace and happiness.
Remove whatever holds you back… And replace it with… Whatever pushes you forward.
Greed, greed, greed, three words everyone knows and loves. How much can I charge you for this, how much for that? We are obsessed with value and we as a race, seem to value materialism and greed above all else. We will quite happily let another human suffer and live in the most horrendous conditions, just so we can have more than we could ever need or want. It seems from my viewpoint that the only thing going on is the rich get richer and the poor well that is obvious.
I know it is an old cliché but by now as a species we should have realised this does not work. Eventually we are going to hit a critical mass, capitalism and democracy will eventually fail, new ideas need to be thought of to combat greed and materialism. We have seen in the past, ages of tyranny, of Kings and Queens, of revolution. We are, as a planet slowly increasing our moralist attitudes now. How is it different forcing a slave to work 15 hours a day or, forcing a mother in a third world country to walk five miles to work, then work a 12 hour day before trudging back for a pittance, so we in the west can have our little luxuries. You may say one is free but which one?
I love my little luxuries, but I’m sure without the greed of large corporations, we could have our luxuries without having to enslave half the developing world to achieve it. Your route to success is not through greed and accumulation of material goods, when did that ever really achieved anything. The more you have the more you want, it’s a vicious circle and it will all end with an almighty bang. Thankfully the internet has in some way developed an open source, sharing philosophy; although not perfect it’s a start of the metamorphosis from greed and capitalism to a kinder attitude to your fellow human. We need to work together to remove paranoia, and a need to horde and collect things. When humans first started to barter and swap goods - that was the most logical way to live life, a form of collaboration, I want this, you want that, I need help with this etc etc. I doubt we will end up with the utopian society they preach on Star Trek TNG but let us try to at least give everyone who lives on this incredible planet the chance to actually enjoy and fulfil themselves with peace and happiness.
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
What you believe!!!
If what you believe to be true is true, and what you believe to be false is false; happen to be totally wrong, would it matter?
If you genuinely believe it to be so, and it comforts or benefits you, makes you feel happy, makes you feel strong; does the fact its incorrect have any bearing. And if it doesn’t matter and doesn’t have any bearing, does this mean that everything is true and false, depending on what you believe. Confusing I know, but this seems to be the way of the world.
If you genuinely believe it to be so, and it comforts or benefits you, makes you feel happy, makes you feel strong; does the fact its incorrect have any bearing. And if it doesn’t matter and doesn’t have any bearing, does this mean that everything is true and false, depending on what you believe. Confusing I know, but this seems to be the way of the world.
Mars Delusion
I find it rather strange that so many scientists believe we will be able to use Mars as possible planet to inhabit in the near future, as a sort of twin to Earth. I’ve watched programs where they suggest ways to bring an atmosphere, and other Earth like properties but it seems they are clearly missing a great deal of evidence or they are just blindly ignoring obvious problems to using Mars as a colony.
The first and most alarming miscalculation to this thought is that fact Mars doesn’t have a solid iron inner core surrounded by a flowing, molten, liquid outer core. So how will we create out magnetic field which keeps the atmosphere from burning away and keeps life from being bombarded by harmful cosmic rays? It is also too small, meaning less gravity than Earth. If you lived on Mars all your life, you would find it extremely difficult to come back to Earth. Earth also needs a Moon to sustain life, the reason being it keeps our planet from wobbling. It also gives us seasons and causes the tides in the seas and oceans. Mars has two tiny rocks nowhere near as large as the Moon, so the only life we could create there would be in some sort of habisphere. I am sure we might be able to use Mars as some kind of short stay holiday resort, or a scientist’s outpost, but I would feel sorry for the hotel workers or scientists stuck there. I suppose in a few millennia we will have advance enough to know how to turn Mars into a planet we can live on, but I would hope by then we have found better planets to inhabit, should Earth decide to have another extinction event.
The first and most alarming miscalculation to this thought is that fact Mars doesn’t have a solid iron inner core surrounded by a flowing, molten, liquid outer core. So how will we create out magnetic field which keeps the atmosphere from burning away and keeps life from being bombarded by harmful cosmic rays? It is also too small, meaning less gravity than Earth. If you lived on Mars all your life, you would find it extremely difficult to come back to Earth. Earth also needs a Moon to sustain life, the reason being it keeps our planet from wobbling. It also gives us seasons and causes the tides in the seas and oceans. Mars has two tiny rocks nowhere near as large as the Moon, so the only life we could create there would be in some sort of habisphere. I am sure we might be able to use Mars as some kind of short stay holiday resort, or a scientist’s outpost, but I would feel sorry for the hotel workers or scientists stuck there. I suppose in a few millennia we will have advance enough to know how to turn Mars into a planet we can live on, but I would hope by then we have found better planets to inhabit, should Earth decide to have another extinction event.
Trust without deception, humanity needs to change to survive
***NOTE*** I wrote this about 2 years ago, it was around the time when teenagers were knifing each other in inner cities. At least we have a new government now, let us hope they do a better job than the last one. I think Brown's regime was probably one of the worst governments I can recall in my lifetime at least.
If anyone seriously believes, that the world we live in today is good, they are deluding themselves. Humanity is supposedly at its pinnacle, but I feel it is far closer to its own destruction.
We never seen to learn from out past. We live in a depressive society, where greed, power, and success are the only thing worth attaining. Gather as many possessions as you can, earn as much money, this is the way to fulfilment, but it is fundamentally wrong.
Look at society today, teenagers murdering teenagers, drug fuelled gangs attacking each other and the innocent victims, of their malevolence. Why is it, that the masses of terrorist cameras (supposedly there to keep us safe) are able to catch a dog doing its business, and be able to fine the owner, yet cannot keep these gangs of drug fuelled weapon carrying teenage thugs under control?
How can the bin men, refuse the collect an 80 year olds rubbish, and demand personal records of its residents, yet paedophilia and domestic abuse is still common place in society.
We do not seem to have learned anything from our past. We need to change fundamentally. We need to move away from the have’s and have not’s, market economies encourage less have’s and more have not’s. We allow most of our planets population to live in awful poverty and hardship. We seem to want to keep the masses down, western nations need to realise it will eventually lead to our downfall. Barriers need to be broken down, we need to embrace each as one, as humanity and not by nationality. We are all human, whether we like to think of ourselves as one or not, always remember together we will succeed, divided we will fall. Why is that so difficult for people to realise?
Here is a poem I wrote in one of my darkest hours, earlier this year...
I live in Britain it once was great,
It's now a cesspool full of hate,
One-time leaders of industry,
Now, its teenage pregnancy.
Camera's watch all streets and shops,
Yet hooded knifer's evade the cops,
Debt as high as a third world state,
We need to act before it's too late,
Government has lost the plot,
Sold our gold, a cut price job-lot,
Misery, is everywhere,
All is turning to despair,
Civil liberties have decreased,
Yet banker's bonus still increase,
No one seems to give a damn,
Look a minister's expenses sham,
How far down before we learn,
I live in Britain it's about to burn
If anyone seriously believes, that the world we live in today is good, they are deluding themselves. Humanity is supposedly at its pinnacle, but I feel it is far closer to its own destruction.
We never seen to learn from out past. We live in a depressive society, where greed, power, and success are the only thing worth attaining. Gather as many possessions as you can, earn as much money, this is the way to fulfilment, but it is fundamentally wrong.
Look at society today, teenagers murdering teenagers, drug fuelled gangs attacking each other and the innocent victims, of their malevolence. Why is it, that the masses of terrorist cameras (supposedly there to keep us safe) are able to catch a dog doing its business, and be able to fine the owner, yet cannot keep these gangs of drug fuelled weapon carrying teenage thugs under control?
How can the bin men, refuse the collect an 80 year olds rubbish, and demand personal records of its residents, yet paedophilia and domestic abuse is still common place in society.
We do not seem to have learned anything from our past. We need to change fundamentally. We need to move away from the have’s and have not’s, market economies encourage less have’s and more have not’s. We allow most of our planets population to live in awful poverty and hardship. We seem to want to keep the masses down, western nations need to realise it will eventually lead to our downfall. Barriers need to be broken down, we need to embrace each as one, as humanity and not by nationality. We are all human, whether we like to think of ourselves as one or not, always remember together we will succeed, divided we will fall. Why is that so difficult for people to realise?
Here is a poem I wrote in one of my darkest hours, earlier this year...
I live in Britain it once was great,
It's now a cesspool full of hate,
One-time leaders of industry,
Now, its teenage pregnancy.
Camera's watch all streets and shops,
Yet hooded knifer's evade the cops,
Debt as high as a third world state,
We need to act before it's too late,
Government has lost the plot,
Sold our gold, a cut price job-lot,
Misery, is everywhere,
All is turning to despair,
Civil liberties have decreased,
Yet banker's bonus still increase,
No one seems to give a damn,
Look a minister's expenses sham,
How far down before we learn,
I live in Britain it's about to burn
A World without...
A WORLD WITHOUT RELIGION IS A BETTER WORLD!
A WORLD WITHOUT PHILOSOPHY AND REASON IS WORSE!
A WORLD WITHOUT LOGIC IS ULTIMATELY DOOMED!
A WORLD WITHOUT FREEDOM IS CURSED!
Do you not find it strange, that with most religions, the god figure, the almighty, the holiest of holies seems to do more bad things than good. I am not even just talking about the present incumbent of the title God, look at Zeus he raped, murdered, cursed and did countless hideous acts. Here are some of the things the present ‘One God’ has had carried out in his name; mass murder, ritual suicide, ritual slaughter (humans and animals), torture, self-flagellation, and self-mortification. Then you can add the discrimination of women, the mutilation of children, slavery, disease, genocide, and the list goes on and on. In the past people have thought he brought us the sun or made the crops grow, he created seasons, and gives us a sense of purpose and a reason to live. We now know this is all nonsense, the sun rises and crops grow because of physical and biological reasons not religious ones.
Here is a little phrase that would probably have had me burned at the stake after being tortured for my blasphemy.
“When he/she arrives, the Anti-Christ will not be here to destroy humanity, but here to destroy religion.”
Oh and a one line poem to finish off...
Strike me down God if you exist, but since you don’t, I know you won’t.
A WORLD WITHOUT PHILOSOPHY AND REASON IS WORSE!
A WORLD WITHOUT LOGIC IS ULTIMATELY DOOMED!
A WORLD WITHOUT FREEDOM IS CURSED!
Do you not find it strange, that with most religions, the god figure, the almighty, the holiest of holies seems to do more bad things than good. I am not even just talking about the present incumbent of the title God, look at Zeus he raped, murdered, cursed and did countless hideous acts. Here are some of the things the present ‘One God’ has had carried out in his name; mass murder, ritual suicide, ritual slaughter (humans and animals), torture, self-flagellation, and self-mortification. Then you can add the discrimination of women, the mutilation of children, slavery, disease, genocide, and the list goes on and on. In the past people have thought he brought us the sun or made the crops grow, he created seasons, and gives us a sense of purpose and a reason to live. We now know this is all nonsense, the sun rises and crops grow because of physical and biological reasons not religious ones.
Here is a little phrase that would probably have had me burned at the stake after being tortured for my blasphemy.
“When he/she arrives, the Anti-Christ will not be here to destroy humanity, but here to destroy religion.”
Oh and a one line poem to finish off...
Strike me down God if you exist, but since you don’t, I know you won’t.
Monday, 13 September 2010
Time Travel
Just been watching one of Hawking's docs, he is discussing time travel, and he mentions the paradox about if you invented a time machine and then went back in time and somehow managed to kill yourself before you managed to invent the time machine. He states that this would create a paradox and is likely impossible. If you think of the universe in a linear way, it is impossible, but if you instead expand the way you see it, and imagine the universe as a series of moments then it is quite possible to go back and kill yourself and not create a paradox. The way you do this is simple, you are Person (Bob) A in moment A, you decide to make a time machine, Person (Bob) A creates time machine, Person (Bob) B, C, D etc also makes a times machine but not quite the same as you, they are you but in their moment something however insignificant changed their perspective. Person (Bob) AAAB1001, might have never even wanted to make a time machine he took a different path in an earlier moment - hope that makes sense. Anyway back to Person (Bob) A, his decision creates the time machine and he decides to go back in time and kill himself. Or someone he perceives as himself, but when he goes back the person he sees is not Person (Bob) A but another Person (Bob), maybe he is Person (Bob) B, or Person (Bob) ZS1, they also exist in a different moment and a different perspective. Person (Bob) life changes through every moment, and every moment Person (Bob) splits into many Person (Bob)'s, this happens constantly and every consequence of every moment of every Person (Bob) is played out. So it is logical that in one of those moments, Person (Bob) A can go back and kill Person (Bob). I'll try to make it make more sense when I think about it more, but I just wanted to get it down whilst it was fresh in the mind.
***Addition*** 23/09/2010 09.00
You have to think of the life or reality of Person (Bob) has always now, we generally imagine now as a progression forward, we create this forwardness because we have created time. Since we have created time and time moves forward, we perceive our existence as past (older moments of time) present (now moment) future (moments yet to come). This is incorrect, time does not exist, it is a human creation to help us form order out of chaos, it gives us the illusion time moves forward. So back to the Hawking's Paradox, we are always in the present moment even if we are capable of creating a time machine. The time machine will take us forward or back in time but it will still be our present moment. You don’t loop back and re-engage the old moment again, that has gone, you see a new moment, but you perceive it as the past. You are never going to see a time traveller from the future ever, you will never see a time traveller from the past either, for that is impossible, in our moment of perspective.
***Addition*** 23/09/2010 09.00
You have to think of the life or reality of Person (Bob) has always now, we generally imagine now as a progression forward, we create this forwardness because we have created time. Since we have created time and time moves forward, we perceive our existence as past (older moments of time) present (now moment) future (moments yet to come). This is incorrect, time does not exist, it is a human creation to help us form order out of chaos, it gives us the illusion time moves forward. So back to the Hawking's Paradox, we are always in the present moment even if we are capable of creating a time machine. The time machine will take us forward or back in time but it will still be our present moment. You don’t loop back and re-engage the old moment again, that has gone, you see a new moment, but you perceive it as the past. You are never going to see a time traveller from the future ever, you will never see a time traveller from the past either, for that is impossible, in our moment of perspective.
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