Family Matters: Angelic Sexuality

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In the Jesus legend the hero speaks of a virtual family as a greater state of being than a physical family. There are institutions in society today that promote virtual sibling-hood. Marriage is promoted as a form of virtual sibling relationship. People who profess to a faith in this hero claim to worship an eternal parent, albeit one without a partner. Some of them claim that they have experienced a second, virtual birth into an eternal abode.

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Western NGOs - The' New Imperialism'?

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It has been said that the people in the Western World should just keep out of developing nations, that
the era of ' the White Man's Burden' is over, and we can never correct the mistakes of the past ourselves.

So, what are we to do about the situation that we see on our TV screens, I ask?

I know there are some that say 'Just accept the fact that you are privileged - there is nothing you can do for the poor in developing countries'.

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Sociopaths and society

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I strongly recommend that everyone read a fascinating book called The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout, Ph.D.

What is a sociopath?
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Are we being held back?

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The more I experience reality, the more I am convinced Earth is a lifeboat: a survival colony for homo sapiens who fled natural disasters from changes in the solar system. Those planets (Venus and/or Mars or who the fuck knows/cares) are now uninhabitable. Earth was not so much environmentally inhabitable, as just as dangerous as fuck place; full of sub-species that eat and kill (many perhaps ferried over to Earth from the others like rats on a ship?).

The hope of survival was that humans were capable of re-inventing space travel (we did!) and could continue on infecting the universe with our bacteria laden island-bodies (which, on an icky level are what we are).

 

But we have GOVERNMENT in control of space exploration funding. Now, the primary function of any sentient entity, especially government (the 'bacteria' of the government 'body' being bureaucrats, which sounds like 'bacteria' in Ukranian!), is to survive and grow.

 

Government needs people in order to survive. If we have de-planed the planet, and are off gallivanting across the known universes, how can they tax and boss us around?

 

QUESTION: Could there be motive for a government agenda (or those who monopolize energy generation, same thing) to keep space exploration in a pre-adolescent phase, given for each dollar generated for the space program regenerates $8 for the public sector's benefit?

 

No links, just an old guy's nostalgic observation remembering when each manned rocket launch was an 'event'.

 

Since we are talking all weird shit today

Oh and gay marriage.

Food Regulation or: You'd Think We Could All Agree On This

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Well apparently I thought wrong. There is great division in these here lands over the proper handling of food regulation (or lack thereof) by our glorious Big Brother government, who exist only to extract our hard-earned tax money from us at gunpoint. Who put these clowns in power, anyway? I certainly didn't. That would require having me come out of my bunker to go to the polls, and there are Black Panthers there ready to pounce on me! But I digress.

Now, we can't have a discussion without some baselines and clarifications, the first of which is the fallacy that libertarians want anarchy. They don't- they are perfectly accepting of a nice democratic republic with a nice Constitution. They simply don't like being told what they can and can't do, and would like these restrictions kept to an absolute minimum. Fraud, perjury, forgery, violence, or really any process that relies on force or lying should be illegal, and we all agree on that.

I have a personal issue with libertarians in that some (to not cast a generalized glance) advocate a society driven by a profit-motive, but a lot of things that act toward the benefit of society go against the profit motive. Testing your food, stickers with expiration dates, very rigorous safety measures, all of these cost money and yet in a society without safety laws, these people are expected to still follow these procedures that cost them a lot of money? This didn't happen in history, and I don't know why it would happen if all regulations were removed. That's my one gripe, and I'd like to not focus on it as much to just address the issues I'm about to bring up.

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