There are only two keys (universal laws) to success with which all the doors of opportunity may be unlocked: 1) Honor yourself, and 2) Honor the Universe.
Honoring yourself means accepting that you are important and that your long-term welfare deserves both investment and protection, earned by your own efforts. Earn your wealth, both spiritual and physical, by maintaining harmony with both the laws which govern the physical world and those of the spiritual world.
Honoring the Universe applies to both other people, and everything living and non-living, but never at your own expense or at their expense. Harmony is maintained by accepting reality and by engaging only in mutually beneficial interactions/relationships. Respect other people and inspire in them a desire to embrace the 1st universal key, and then defend their right to to it as you would defend you own right to honor yourself. Respect nature by preserving natural resources for wise, optimum, efficient advancement of the two universal laws.
My considerations of life: political, social, and individual truths and natures of reality. A rational, objective commentary on current events, my experience, and my vision for the future.
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
The Power of Cleaning
Whenever I clean, I notice everything that is hidden or wrong. Lost items, and defects in the materials become immediately and glaringly obvious. The best method of inspecting anything before buying it is to clean it first. The best method of finding your keys or your ring is to start cleaning and organizing your house (or apartment).
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Promises
Promises are only good when they are made freely. When either force or deception (ideological force), are used it must be expected that one is dealing with an enemy defined by the violation of the establishment of optimum, mutually beneficial relationships. In other words, one party stands to lose benefit available from alternative courses of action while the other stands to benefit too much. Lacking the best interests of the former party (the victim/slave), the promise holds no force and actually faces a resistive force. Establishing undue/unearned gain for the latter party (the thief/master), there exists great forces advancing the maintenance and strengthening of the inequity by force. This further releases the thief from obligation to the original promise.
No person may be expected to honor any commitment with any party which poses a threat to one's health or one's prosperity. Promises require trust and establish dependency, both of which are undermined by those who would advance their agendas by force. Negotiation with one's enemies (as has been the common practice with terrorists before 9/11) implies the desire to establish promises and commitments with one's enemies. This policy is insane because it denies inherent distrust and independence required for relationships with one's enemies. Anything which strengthens an enemy, even if it hurts another enemy more, must be considered an added threat to oneself. Of course, negotiations are preferred if one's enemies may be convinced to release their evil desires against oneself, and prove their loyalty.
No person may be expected to honor any commitment with any party which poses a threat to one's health or one's prosperity. Promises require trust and establish dependency, both of which are undermined by those who would advance their agendas by force. Negotiation with one's enemies (as has been the common practice with terrorists before 9/11) implies the desire to establish promises and commitments with one's enemies. This policy is insane because it denies inherent distrust and independence required for relationships with one's enemies. Anything which strengthens an enemy, even if it hurts another enemy more, must be considered an added threat to oneself. Of course, negotiations are preferred if one's enemies may be convinced to release their evil desires against oneself, and prove their loyalty.
Friday, August 11, 2006
The future of communications
I have a vision of the unification of communications technologies, from wireless cell phones to wireless highspeed broadband internet.
A special "cell phone" acts as a portal to the internet much like a wireless router with stand-alone capabilities. Through it one may access the internet, personalized information (in a format similar to Google's personalized homepage with modules), email, video and voice communications and recordings, and financial information with bio-ID such as a fingerprint and a voice authentication and electronic ID such as wireless key cards. This ID could be used to protect financial information and transactions. The email could screen for trusted sources, routing all other communications to a quarantine folder. User interaction with the router would supplement voice communication for the traditional qwerty keyboard or painfully slow and awkward upside-down 10-key.
The router would interface with the computer through an ethernet port and it would continuously check for updates and send new information from the user for communication with the highest quality and lowest disruption due to lost or low wireless signals.
A special "cell phone" acts as a portal to the internet much like a wireless router with stand-alone capabilities. Through it one may access the internet, personalized information (in a format similar to Google's personalized homepage with modules), email, video and voice communications and recordings, and financial information with bio-ID such as a fingerprint and a voice authentication and electronic ID such as wireless key cards. This ID could be used to protect financial information and transactions. The email could screen for trusted sources, routing all other communications to a quarantine folder. User interaction with the router would supplement voice communication for the traditional qwerty keyboard or painfully slow and awkward upside-down 10-key.
The router would interface with the computer through an ethernet port and it would continuously check for updates and send new information from the user for communication with the highest quality and lowest disruption due to lost or low wireless signals.
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Peace and War
Those who desire peace (the cessation of hostilities), fear war. Those who desire war, fear life. Those who desire life, fear death of self. Those who desire death, fear themselves and their agency (freedom); in essence, they are fear.
Those who are peace have no fears. They value allegiance and hostility, life and death, agency and obedience - each in harmony with reality which consists of the natures of all things. Those who are peace, know happiness and continually enjoy inner peace as their companion. Such inner peace is shunned by those who fear, which fear harms and weakens their inner selves with dissonance against nature herself.
Those who are peace have no fears. They value allegiance and hostility, life and death, agency and obedience - each in harmony with reality which consists of the natures of all things. Those who are peace, know happiness and continually enjoy inner peace as their companion. Such inner peace is shunned by those who fear, which fear harms and weakens their inner selves with dissonance against nature herself.
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
The ends do not justify the means.
Most atrocities and abuses have been justified by the common saying, "The ends justify the means." Ironically, the application of this philosophy actually undermines the ends and typically is used to support the use of force/deception (I see no difference between the two, except minor details in the traditional definitions).
The ends define the means. The end of a happy society consists of policies which allow individuals to discover and pursue their own interests. The end of justice consists of policies which respect individual sovereignty and freedom. The end of efficiency entails the elimination of excess entropy (waste) by establishing energetic environments which honor the strengths and weaknesses of each. In other words, accept reality peacefully and align your nature with its nature.
Subsidies are means to creating dependencies as their ends. Policies of control yield an audience unaccustomed to freedom, independence, and sovereign respect, thus fighting the very nature of the human soul.
The end of parental respect requires that parents act in respectful ways. The end of developing children into mature adults requires the bestowal of responsibilities and support, and a strict refrain from "spoiling" them (i.e. giving them what they want when they want it simply because they want it), though it is completely acceptable (to the end of maturity) for the subject to be allowed to enjoy policies which develop maturity.
The end of a strong family requires the increase love and respect between all members, which is quickly undermined by physical and verbal abuse. What we call "respect" due to physical or verbal punishment is actually fear and unrelated to my idea of respect. This fear is nothing like the admiration, value, and even love intrinsic with my definition of respect.
The end of a strong economy is advanced by productivity and efficiency and freedom. These require equality/impartiality, and simplicity of the governing laws of the land, to name a few. A complex tax code (as enforced by the wasteful and intrusive IRS) giving preferential treatment (i.e. subsidies) to some groups over other groups will make an inefficient, biased system in which people will not work as productively or with as much motivation. A simple, flat, transpare sales tax like the FairTax motivates productivity, efficiency, and freedom in its fairness (equality) and in its simple efficiency.
The ends define the means. The end of a happy society consists of policies which allow individuals to discover and pursue their own interests. The end of justice consists of policies which respect individual sovereignty and freedom. The end of efficiency entails the elimination of excess entropy (waste) by establishing energetic environments which honor the strengths and weaknesses of each. In other words, accept reality peacefully and align your nature with its nature.
Subsidies are means to creating dependencies as their ends. Policies of control yield an audience unaccustomed to freedom, independence, and sovereign respect, thus fighting the very nature of the human soul.
The end of parental respect requires that parents act in respectful ways. The end of developing children into mature adults requires the bestowal of responsibilities and support, and a strict refrain from "spoiling" them (i.e. giving them what they want when they want it simply because they want it), though it is completely acceptable (to the end of maturity) for the subject to be allowed to enjoy policies which develop maturity.
The end of a strong family requires the increase love and respect between all members, which is quickly undermined by physical and verbal abuse. What we call "respect" due to physical or verbal punishment is actually fear and unrelated to my idea of respect. This fear is nothing like the admiration, value, and even love intrinsic with my definition of respect.
The end of a strong economy is advanced by productivity and efficiency and freedom. These require equality/impartiality, and simplicity of the governing laws of the land, to name a few. A complex tax code (as enforced by the wasteful and intrusive IRS) giving preferential treatment (i.e. subsidies) to some groups over other groups will make an inefficient, biased system in which people will not work as productively or with as much motivation. A simple, flat, transpare sales tax like the FairTax motivates productivity, efficiency, and freedom in its fairness (equality) and in its simple efficiency.