If a whole bunch of clans are living together on Human Being Street, and one of them decides to damage another, you know, be aggressive, kill people, molest those who can't fight back, steal the food and goodies, victimize the weak simply because they can, there's only one sensible answer to the problem. It doesn't have anything to do with figuring out why things happened the way they did. You, the victim, are not obligated to provide answers. Neither is it your job to point fingers at those who allowed it to happen. What you do is pick up your war club, go over to the other fellow's clan, and brain every one of them so none are left to cause so much discomfort again. It's called survival and it's been around a long time.

I sometimes get asked to apply my logic to this modern, terrorist, never-going-away nonsense. I don't understand why such a simple answer is made so complex, so I'll try to put it in perspective. Terror is a tactic, not an enemy. You cannot have a war against a tactic. Most terrorists come from places where mosques dominate their lives. Iraq is a good example. They have not separated the mosque and the state, like we have, so our solution, democracy, cannot work for them until that separation is real, like it happened recently in Indonesia. Until they achieve that dichotomy, we cannot expect victory at arms

If you walk into their clan and try to club them all, some are undoubtedly going to be left to club you again. It's much smarter to include the desired dichotomy in your war plan. Most of the Muslims I have met insist the violence is not their way nor their religion. That is, until their Imam tells them they are obligated to kill the infidel or be killed themselves. Once you can separate good and bad Muslims, you can go about proper clubbing and take care of business. This is easier to understand if you know that Islam means 'submit' to a stone idol in Mecca the way the Islamic teachers (imams) want it done, whereas democracy means never submit or give up our freedoms.

people. If everybody has guns, it is illogical for you not to have them. There is no middle ground. It's either all or nothing. You don't want to bring a knife to a gun fight, and standing amidst hostiles with nought but your most precious part in your hands is not likely to prevent your demise. If you live near the ocean, and haven't heard the tidal wave alarm, you are going to drown. Ergo, arm yourself.

Pharmaceutical manufacturers are in the business of making money. They have absolutely no interest in keeping you alive. Cures are the worst thing that can happen to them because once you recover your health, they no longer enjoy profit. It is much better for them if they can drag the process out over very long periods of time. Natural medicines, from the forests and seas, have been grabbed up by giant corporations so you cannot benefit from freely available cures. Your well-being is the end of the medicine business Therefore, the safest place for you to live on Earth is in a society that recognizes the value of social medicine. There is no need for you to enter the spider's web if a free ride is

There is a simple remedy to eliminate addiction and all the crime it causes. Make all the drugs freely available. Once that happens, addicts will no longer be forced to commit crimes to get the drugs. That will give them the time they need to go cold turkey and beat the drug, or die trying. In a very short time, all the addicts will be dead or recovered. Relapses will work the same way.

hives, and discover it upon reaching home, you exchange it later for something better, don't you? So why force yourself to eat that which you know will yield undesirable results? Just say no, no matter anyone else's urging, and buy good food. And if you can't seem to do that, because you are addicted to broccoli, try going cold turkey unless the grocery store gives it away for free.

The first premise of education is communication and calculation. Everyone must speak the same language and count the same numbers. In America, English is not the official language and immigrants are not required to speak it. The imbalance that this causes in our schools is unconscionable. No immigrant child should be permitted in American schools who does not have basic familiarity with English, taught by the parents, and the ability to count money. No citizenship should be granted unless the immigrant has mastered the language and basic math.

information must be taught essentially the same way, based on the skills needed for the jobs available. The professions should all be regulated the same way, even among the highly interpretive professions such as innovative research, the arts and sciences.

The third equally important premise is for those who teach to understand that the only way to be successful is to inspire students to want to learn. Anything else is a waste of time, for example, our current schools.

Ghandi was right about the fact that insurance does not really exist. I go a bit further by stating that it is the most outrageous fraud ever perpetrated on society. They definitely rake in lots of money, but do absolutely nothing to earn it. You may have noticed that a dollar is considered legal tender for services rendered. Insurance does not render a service. It simply forwards part of their stockpile to you, the victim, paid for by those who are not yet victims. It isn't their money to begin with. And the moment you stake a claim, assuming you can convince them you have satisfied the contract you signed, they pay for it and increase their profits by escalating your cost for buying insurance in the first place. And, of course, many houses do not honor their contracts.

supposed to be blind and poor. It may be that justice once existed on this planet, but it has not survived. Today it must be purchased. The only way to get things back to the way they were is to change the system that produced the pseudo.

It you accept the scenario of saving and investing your money, you should do so knowing in advance that the world is filled with people who want to steal it. The wisest course is to never permit a single soul to know what you have or where, not family, friends or lovers. Should the day come when an investment seems good to you, be certain you are unrecognized and carefully anonymous, otherwise prepare for loss. The honeybee must ever protect its sacs of pollen from strangers, siblings, and alluring flutterbys, else risk not contributing at all to the comb.

All other species on this planet manage to get by without money. Most do not bother with a medium of exchange at all, not even wallets or pockets. If we are going to compete with highly successful insects, it's probably in our interest to do away with money and rely on things like skill and knowledge.

Doesn't it make a rude kind of sense, considering how much other time we spend with our kids teaching insignificant things, that we should reserve some spare moments to un-confuse our dearest treasures in those techniques likely to become the most important and pleasant in their lives? My own parents were rather lax in this instruction, actually fearful about doing so, and were quite grateful that I was not "strange" when I informed them at a tender age that I was not only familiar with bippity, boppity boo, but rather inventive about it.

Of course, one should restrain from an overly zealous first experience, and obtain permission from the opposite sex before proceeding. But I seriously do feel that confining oneself to an abnormally small area, like a canoe, or a publicly well-lit expanse, like a vast parking lot with but a single car, or an entirely dark lover's lane where fumbling becomes more than an unfamiliar experience, should be avoided. I also feel that a very clear definition of "what hole where" definitely comes in handy for the unimaginative.



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	Going to War If a whole bunch of clans are living together on Human Being Street, and one of them decides to damage another, you know, be aggressive, kill people, molest those who can't fight back, steal the food and goodies, victimize the weak simply because they can, there's only one sensible answer to the problem. It doesn't have anything to do with figuring out why things happened the way they did. You, the victim, are not obligated to provide answers. Neither is it your job to point fingers at those who allowed it to happen. What you do is pick up your war club, go over to the other fellow's clan, and brain every one of them so none are left to cause so much discomfort again. It's called survival and it's been around a long time. I sometimes get asked to apply my logic to this modern, terrorist, never-going-away nonsense. I don't understand why such a simple answer is made so complex, so I'll try to put it in perspective. Terror is a tactic, not an enemy. You cannot have a war against a tactic. Most terrorists come from places where mosques dominate their lives. Iraq is a good example. They have not separated the mosque and the state, like we have, so our solution, democracy, cannot work for them until that separation is real, like it happened recently in Indonesia. Until they achieve that dichotomy, we cannot expect victory at arms because no military succeeds against a religion, especially one with 1.4 billion followers. If you walk into their clan and try to club them all, some are undoubtedly going to be left to club you again. It's much smarter to include the desired dichotomy in your war plan. Most of the Muslims I have met insist the violence is not their way nor their religion. That is, until their Imam tells them they are obligated to kill the infidel or be killed themselves. Once you can separate good and bad Muslims, you can go about proper clubbing and take care of business. This is easier to understand if you know that Islam means 'submit' to a stone idol in Mecca the way the Islamic teachers (imams) want it done, whereas democracy means never submit or give up our freedoms. Guns If nobody has any guns, the only reason for you to have them is to kill innocent people. If everybody has guns, it is illogical for you not to have them. There is no middle ground. It's either all or nothing. You don't want to bring a knife to a gun fight, and standing amidst hostiles with nought but your most precious part in your hands is not likely to prevent your demise. If you live near the ocean, and haven't heard the tidal wave alarm, you are going to drown. Ergo, arm yourself. Medicine Pharmaceutical manufacturers are in the business of making money. They have absolutely no interest in keeping you alive. Cures are the worst thing that can happen to them because once you recover your health, they no longer enjoy profit. It is much better for them if they can drag the process out over very long periods of time. Natural medicines, from the forests and seas, have been grabbed up by giant corporations so you cannot benefit from freely available cures. Your well-being is the end of the medicine business Therefore, the safest place for you to live on Earth is in a society that recognizes the value of social medicine. There is no need for you to enter the spider's web if a free ride is available from a more or less reasonable dragonfly, even if Viagra Falls appears exciting at first. Addictive Drugs There is a simple remedy to eliminate addiction and all the crime it causes. Make all the drugs freely available. Once that happens, addicts will no longer be forced to commit crimes to get the drugs. That will give them the time they need to go cold turkey and beat the drug, or die trying. In a very short time, all the addicts will be dead or recovered. Relapses will work the same way. If you inadvertently put broccoli in your grocery bag, a vegetable that gives you hives, and discover it upon reaching home, you exchange it later for something better, don't you? So why force yourself to eat that which you know will yield undesirable results? Just say no, no matter anyone else's urging, and buy good food. And if you can't seem to do that, because you are addicted to broccoli, try going cold turkey unless the grocery store gives it away for free. Education The first premise of education is communication and calculation. Everyone must speak the same language and count the same numbers. In America, English is not the official language and immigrants are not required to speak it. The imbalance that this causes in our schools is unconscionable. No immigrant child should be permitted in American schools who does not have basic familiarity with English, taught by the parents, and the ability to count money. No citizenship should be granted unless the immigrant has mastered the language and basic math. Once the child can read English, the great books of literature should be studied for content, expression, memorization and appreciation. The second premise is standardization. Every student in every grade from elementary through college should be expected to pass the identical tests. Class information must be taught essentially the same way, based on the skills needed for the jobs available. The professions should all be regulated the same way, even among the highly interpretive professions such as innovative research, the arts and sciences. The third equally important premise is for those who teach to understand that the only way to be successful is to inspire students to want to learn. Anything else is a waste of time, for example, our current schools. Insurance Ghandi was right about the fact that insurance does not really exist. I go a bit further by stating that it is the most outrageous fraud ever perpetrated on society. They definitely rake in lots of money, but do absolutely nothing to earn it. You may have noticed that a dollar is considered legal tender for services rendered. Insurance does not render a service. It simply forwards part of their stockpile to you, the victim, paid for by those who are not yet victims. It isn't their money to begin with. And the moment you stake a claim, assuming you can convince them you have satisfied the contract you signed, they pay for it and increase their profits by escalating your cost for buying insurance in the first place. And, of course, many houses do not honor their contracts. Justice Justice can only exist when people of integrity judge cases impartially. It is supposed to be blind and poor. It may be that justice once existed on this planet, but it has not survived. Today it must be purchased. The only way to get things back to the way they were is to change the system that produced the pseudo. Money It you accept the scenario of saving and investing your money, you should do so knowing in advance that the world is filled with people who want to steal it. The wisest course is to never permit a single soul to know what you have or where, not family, friends or lovers. Should the day come when an investment seems good to you, be certain you are unrecognized and carefully anonymous, otherwise prepare for loss. The honeybee must ever protect its sacs of pollen from strangers, siblings, and alluring flutterbys, else risk not contributing at all to the comb. All other species on this planet manage to get by without money. Most do not bother with a medium of exchange at all, not even wallets or pockets. If we are going to compete with highly successful insects, it's probably in our interest to do away with money and rely on things like skill and knowledge. Sex Doesn't it make a rude kind of sense, considering how much other time we spend with our kids teaching insignificant things, that we should reserve some spare moments to un-confuse our dearest treasures in those techniques likely to become the most important and pleasant in their lives? My own parents were rather lax in this instruction, actually fearful about doing so, and were quite grateful that I was not "strange" when I informed them at a tender age that I was not only familiar with bippity, boppity boo, but rather inventive about it. Of course, one should restrain from an overly zealous first experience, and obtain permission from the opposite sex before proceeding. But I seriously do feel that confining oneself to an abnormally small area, like a canoe, or a publicly well-lit expanse, like a vast parking lot with but a single car, or an entirely dark lover's lane where fumbling becomes more than an unfamiliar experience, should be avoided. I also feel that a very clear definition of "what hole where" definitely comes in handy for the unimaginative.