But aren't you relying a little too much on your ability to persuade 'other people' to do that work for you? What's in it for them? Kids nowadays all they want to do is play on their iphones and ipads.
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But aren't you relying a little too much on your ability to persuade 'other people' to do that work for you? What's in it for them? Kids nowadays all they want to do is play on their iphones and ipads.
all lies. Nobody will ever find happiness in electronics or other applicances of self-absorbtion. Alex Jones is right, the Evil Empire is not Russia or China anymore, And without Hillary or Obama maybe it isn't the US either, it is the idea of self-sufficiency where ever it rises. Arrogance personified.
People will always need people more than anything else, and they will always turn to the idea of goodness in human wisdom. Grandpa and Grandma will always be the real solid gold standard of humanity.
Good government will always be found in electing Grandpa to fix the stupid young turk bureaucrats.
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Have you seen this? Liberal futuristic living scenarios are my favorite subset in the horror genre:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/shopping-i-can-t-really-remember-what-that-is/
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/shopping-i-can-t-really-remember-what-that-is/
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No. . . . new to me, but not "news".
Eugene Zamatyin wrote a fascinating story back in the 1920s. He was a Russian, well, maybe a Ukranian, with a brain trying to survive Stalin. I think he wrote the book "We", where "we" became the branded property of Statists who were told stories about how we all should be.
Egg!!
A lot of people believe what they are told.
https://orwell.ru/library/reviews/zamyatin/english/e_zamy
I should note that I believe Colton, Jason, and 8 of ten JazzFanz "mods" are dutiful dreamers whose minds have essentially become the mindset of the police in "We", along with Game, Siro, Dal, and Red. There is, theoretically speaking, some thing "We" should be.
But, hey, I'm just always going to be the rebel somewhere on tha revolutionary number line.
Egg!!!
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alcohol strips away fats from brain cell neuronal cell walls, impairing receptor competence, no threshold linear effect directly correlating to brain functional impairment..... the wall will rebuild if given a little time, and if the wall is not lyzed, permanently killing the cell.
never argue with a drunk. If you're driving, honk AND evade!!!!!!
never argue with a drunk. If you're driving, honk AND evade!!!!!!
Marijuana impairs the specific directed development of the brain. Brains are still developing rapidly as late as age 26. People who use marijuana do themselves objective, scientifically-proven harm. Siro.
pregnant women do their babies permanent and statistically-significant harm.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3252200/
pregnant women do their babies permanent and statistically-significant harm.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3252200/
The History of Law
I have recently been reviewing some lectures on the history of law, beginning with the ancient civilizations down to the present.
I have ---until now--- believed that the Magna Carta was a great revolution in securing previously-unsecured human rights at least in the line of British and American developments. My wife told me I was nuts.... that human rights were original with the Law of Moses.
Turns out, we were both wrong. It appears that in great civilizations, complex legal systems guaranteeing human rights have been the genesis, the cause of societal greatness, and that as the civilization peaked and began a decline, human rights were correspondingly being degraded by corrupt governmental institutions generally.
The Magna Carta was a demand, backed by various nobles whose interests were being threatened by Royal corruption, that previous rights must be recognized by the King. The Scots, the Celts, the Angles, The Saxons, the Danes, and the Vikings all had legal systems with great individual rights, and very limited governmental perogatives. That is why they were strong peoples.
The Normans, once a Viking branch, had been corrupted by the French legal remnants with serious authoritative reductions in human rights carried down from the fall of the Roman Empire. William the Conqueror only won the battle of Hastings because the defenders didn't see him coming, and had wasted their strength fighting one another.
The American Revolution was the result of corrupt English government literally abusing the colonists and denying them the rights they expected devolving from the common law that went clear through the Magna Carta to centuries of better expectations. In a large measure, we owe our liberty to the Scots, because 9 of the 56 statesmen who produced our Constitution were students of one Princeton (then College of New Jersey) professor named Witherspoon, who knew well his origins and legal traditions, and warned against unbridled government....
James Madison was a Witherspoon student who stayed on for extra courses after his graduation.....
I have recently been reviewing some lectures on the history of law, beginning with the ancient civilizations down to the present.
I have ---until now--- believed that the Magna Carta was a great revolution in securing previously-unsecured human rights at least in the line of British and American developments. My wife told me I was nuts.... that human rights were original with the Law of Moses.
Turns out, we were both wrong. It appears that in great civilizations, complex legal systems guaranteeing human rights have been the genesis, the cause of societal greatness, and that as the civilization peaked and began a decline, human rights were correspondingly being degraded by corrupt governmental institutions generally.
The Magna Carta was a demand, backed by various nobles whose interests were being threatened by Royal corruption, that previous rights must be recognized by the King. The Scots, the Celts, the Angles, The Saxons, the Danes, and the Vikings all had legal systems with great individual rights, and very limited governmental perogatives. That is why they were strong peoples.
The Normans, once a Viking branch, had been corrupted by the French legal remnants with serious authoritative reductions in human rights carried down from the fall of the Roman Empire. William the Conqueror only won the battle of Hastings because the defenders didn't see him coming, and had wasted their strength fighting one another.
The American Revolution was the result of corrupt English government literally abusing the colonists and denying them the rights they expected devolving from the common law that went clear through the Magna Carta to centuries of better expectations. In a large measure, we owe our liberty to the Scots, because 9 of the 56 statesmen who produced our Constitution were students of one Princeton (then College of New Jersey) professor named Witherspoon, who knew well his origins and legal traditions, and warned against unbridled government....
James Madison was a Witherspoon student who stayed on for extra courses after his graduation.....
My favorite authority on military matters, a KNX weekly commentator, says it's disgustingly difficult to stomach the Hollywood version of "Braveheart". Robert the Bruce was so much more, and better, from a tactical military standpoint.
Brian Suites, with his program "A Dark Secret Place". He is so realistic in his appraisals of Mideast issues and other military strategist concerns..... KNX 640 AM. I forget whether it's Sat. or Sun night around 10PM. Doesn't matter, I can only listen when I'm driving, and he outranks Siri125 in my book, whoever it is doing the gun rights program. (David Webb/another guy)
Brian Suites, with his program "A Dark Secret Place". He is so realistic in his appraisals of Mideast issues and other military strategist concerns..... KNX 640 AM. I forget whether it's Sat. or Sun night around 10PM. Doesn't matter, I can only listen when I'm driving, and he outranks Siri125 in my book, whoever it is doing the gun rights program. (David Webb/another guy)
Babe - what's your view on the Palestine/Israel conflict?
So here's a tidbit about a genetic marker in the Bruce male line of descent, beginning with his great grandson. Sorry, it's my maternal line that goes back to Robert I O(the Bruce who studied the ways of a spider, like the Proverb says to study the ways of the Ant)
My genetic ancestry does, according to the outfit we submitted some saliva to, say I'm about 60% Scot. Well, I'd have to imagine I'm descended from the English foe the Bruce fought, as well.
Statistically, 800 years ago, I would have to have about 10 million ancestors on the island that only had 1 million people at the time, if that. Given the likelihood of some of those 1 million being many times my ancestor, it's still a statistical stretch to imagine I'm not descended from at least 100,000 different living people from the year 1316.
Oh, BTW, given the class system and all, it's pretty certain I'm descended from The Bruce in more than one way. Maybe 100 ways. You too, if you're 1/5 Scotch. (pun?/sp intended)
My genetic ancestry does, according to the outfit we submitted some saliva to, say I'm about 60% Scot. Well, I'd have to imagine I'm descended from the English foe the Bruce fought, as well.
Statistically, 800 years ago, I would have to have about 10 million ancestors on the island that only had 1 million people at the time, if that. Given the likelihood of some of those 1 million being many times my ancestor, it's still a statistical stretch to imagine I'm not descended from at least 100,000 different living people from the year 1316.
Oh, BTW, given the class system and all, it's pretty certain I'm descended from The Bruce in more than one way. Maybe 100 ways. You too, if you're 1/5 Scotch. (pun?/sp intended)