Because of the pressures of real life I won't have time to update this blog anything like I thought I would. Same goes for my other place on the blogosphere. So I won't be adding anything else to it.
Shame, really. You start a fresh page with high hopes and there is reality in the way and a while later you look with bitter dissatisfaction at your unfinished work and finally give in and end it on a sort of semi-regretful farewell.
I'm keeping up though (until someone who can notices it's just sitting here, unattended, and takes it down) as a tribute to the folly of humankind (?)
Goodbye from a misanthropic Brit deist.
Sunday, 23 January 2011
Monday, 3 January 2011
MAKING IT CLEARER
I am not a theist.
I am not an atheist.
(Using the classical accepted meanings of these two phrases.)
I believe there is some Great Mind, Great Architect, Unmoved Mover, behind everything because it seems logical to assume that everything did not just happen.
I also believe that this Great Mind has nothing to do with us, therefore didn't write (directly, or through inspiring human hand) any books.
I don't believe that this Great Mind even knows there is sentient life on one planet on the back end of the universe, that's why he doesn't interfere.
I believe evolution and not intelligent design is the reason for the diversity of life.
I believe we are basically machines, invested with a life force.
I believe that every living thing is invested with this life force, whether self aware or not, that's why to harm any living thing is a crime.
I believe human beings are made, i.e., genetics explains the personality better than upbringing.
I believe that anti-social behaviour is a disability that can be controlled. For example, if a serial killer or paedophile, say, if caught, they shouldn't be shut away and forgotten, or hanged. (After all, what has extreme 'lock 'em up and throw away the key' or 'hang 'em' punishment done? It hasn't cut the crime rate at all. For you out there who think talking to and listened to and rewarding the perpetrator works, well it isn't, is it?) It should be discovered, through brain scans and blood tests and other medical interventions, why. This then should be applied to prevent others becoming serial killers and paedophiles. Maybe one day, in a more enlightened age, there will be an injection or table to cure such afflictions or at least keep them under control, just like any disability. If anyone cries 'it's against their human rights', then it's possible to argue treating any condition is against the human rights of the person afflicted.
In addition to the above;
I believe human beings should be left alone, and if they look as if they are struggling, if help is offered and refused, then their wishes should be respected, even if it means their own destruction. This applies to that person alone, if their behaviour upsets others, then they should be compelled to receive assistance.
More clarification;
If someone is born with diabetes or Down's Syndrome or autism or my own condition or some other debilitating condition, so long as it affects only them, as soon as they're old enough to decide, they should be given the choice to work out how the rest of their life would effect them. The rapist and serial killer and harmer of any living thing shouldn't be extended the same right because their actions harm others.
I believe that every human being should be allowed to live the life of a person who has diametrically opposite views before they come to their conclusion on any theory or philosophy.
I don't believe human beings are the superior animal. If you mean superior as someone invested with superior strength and reasoning abilities, yes. But human beings in general, are selfish and factional and are parasites and exploit other species and anyone who uses their strength and size to harm cannot be superior.
I believe every human being, except the dead and comatose, have something to offer, and should be given every chance to do so.
I believe that the borders should be brought down and everyone should become a citizen of planet earth, and all the arguments and factionalism and sectarianism will eventually die out.
I believe that human beings should not try to interfere with the members of other species and their land and every living thing should be given rights, the main of which; to be left alone.
I believe in doing as much good and showing as much kindness and charity as I possibly can.
I believe no one is perfectly bad, and no one is perfectly good, that there is too much grey, because someone deals with something in a certain way, doesn't mean someone else will deal with that situation in the same or even a similar.
I believe that no one needs more than two children and that this policy should be enforced, rigorously, around the world.
I don't believe everything has an explanation or a reason, but things just happen.
I believe one day human beings, for all their vaunted power and boasting will die out, probably due to someone one of them has done. I just hope they don't take members of other species with them.
I don't that is my final philosophy, and even that five years after given up my theism after almost a quarter of a century of being a Christian, I'm still trying on new ways of thinking. Therefore, this statement is subject to not only change, but complete overhaul, and by this time next year I publish another statement of belief that negates all I'm saying and says the complete opposite. (Except maybe the idea that other species should be allowed their lives and rights. That won't ever change.)
I am not an atheist.
(Using the classical accepted meanings of these two phrases.)
I believe there is some Great Mind, Great Architect, Unmoved Mover, behind everything because it seems logical to assume that everything did not just happen.
I also believe that this Great Mind has nothing to do with us, therefore didn't write (directly, or through inspiring human hand) any books.
I don't believe that this Great Mind even knows there is sentient life on one planet on the back end of the universe, that's why he doesn't interfere.
I believe evolution and not intelligent design is the reason for the diversity of life.
I believe we are basically machines, invested with a life force.
I believe that every living thing is invested with this life force, whether self aware or not, that's why to harm any living thing is a crime.
I believe human beings are made, i.e., genetics explains the personality better than upbringing.
I believe that anti-social behaviour is a disability that can be controlled. For example, if a serial killer or paedophile, say, if caught, they shouldn't be shut away and forgotten, or hanged. (After all, what has extreme 'lock 'em up and throw away the key' or 'hang 'em' punishment done? It hasn't cut the crime rate at all. For you out there who think talking to and listened to and rewarding the perpetrator works, well it isn't, is it?) It should be discovered, through brain scans and blood tests and other medical interventions, why. This then should be applied to prevent others becoming serial killers and paedophiles. Maybe one day, in a more enlightened age, there will be an injection or table to cure such afflictions or at least keep them under control, just like any disability. If anyone cries 'it's against their human rights', then it's possible to argue treating any condition is against the human rights of the person afflicted.
In addition to the above;
I believe human beings should be left alone, and if they look as if they are struggling, if help is offered and refused, then their wishes should be respected, even if it means their own destruction. This applies to that person alone, if their behaviour upsets others, then they should be compelled to receive assistance.
More clarification;
If someone is born with diabetes or Down's Syndrome or autism or my own condition or some other debilitating condition, so long as it affects only them, as soon as they're old enough to decide, they should be given the choice to work out how the rest of their life would effect them. The rapist and serial killer and harmer of any living thing shouldn't be extended the same right because their actions harm others.
I believe that every human being should be allowed to live the life of a person who has diametrically opposite views before they come to their conclusion on any theory or philosophy.
I don't believe human beings are the superior animal. If you mean superior as someone invested with superior strength and reasoning abilities, yes. But human beings in general, are selfish and factional and are parasites and exploit other species and anyone who uses their strength and size to harm cannot be superior.
I believe every human being, except the dead and comatose, have something to offer, and should be given every chance to do so.
I believe that the borders should be brought down and everyone should become a citizen of planet earth, and all the arguments and factionalism and sectarianism will eventually die out.
I believe that human beings should not try to interfere with the members of other species and their land and every living thing should be given rights, the main of which; to be left alone.
I believe in doing as much good and showing as much kindness and charity as I possibly can.
I believe no one is perfectly bad, and no one is perfectly good, that there is too much grey, because someone deals with something in a certain way, doesn't mean someone else will deal with that situation in the same or even a similar.
I believe that no one needs more than two children and that this policy should be enforced, rigorously, around the world.
I don't believe everything has an explanation or a reason, but things just happen.
I believe one day human beings, for all their vaunted power and boasting will die out, probably due to someone one of them has done. I just hope they don't take members of other species with them.
I don't that is my final philosophy, and even that five years after given up my theism after almost a quarter of a century of being a Christian, I'm still trying on new ways of thinking. Therefore, this statement is subject to not only change, but complete overhaul, and by this time next year I publish another statement of belief that negates all I'm saying and says the complete opposite. (Except maybe the idea that other species should be allowed their lives and rights. That won't ever change.)
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