Vigilance is Required

"The National Government will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life."

— Adolf Hitler

Berlin, 1933

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Upon this foundation he built an empire. He did not build this empire alone. He had a nation behind him, a nation founded on Christianity and family. A nation that prayed with him and carried out the will of the government, not because they could not think for themselves, but because their thinking was fundamentally akin. The credulity that religion demands of its adherents leaves them predisposed to believe thin statements from those in authority especially when they seem, on their surface, to reinforce dearly held beliefs.

Vigilance is required to keep our beliefs, atheist or theist, from being used as handles to drag us about.

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"I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God."

— President George H.W. Bush

Chicago, Illinois, on August 27, 1987

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There is a potent potential in this country for persecution of out-groups (e.g. minorities). This is especially dangerous when seen to be righteous. I worry for the future of others, like myself, who have come through much thought and study to stand solidly on conclusions that would put us at the end these loving and righteous knives.

Dissatisfaction. Ennui.

Mind forced to engage on less than challenging projects. Mind forced to treat digital ditch digging with similar importance others place upon it. Mind wishes to shut-down now. Hope in fresh start-up springs eternal.

Praxis Fatigue

I tire of my praxis. We answer small questions, solving old problems in slightly new ways, same answer just reworked with new technology. This powers cycles of economy, round and round, leaving little left over for non-capital producing praxis. Humanity's march has always been slow, but it needn't be.

PSA: Diet Books are for Suckers

I hear people talk about dieting as if it were a complicated topic. There are entire isles dedicated to diet books at local bookstores. Amazon has diet books in the thousands selling their dieting angles as if it required several hundreds of pages to understand and implement. Celebrities and doctors pretend to have found new ways to loose weight "and keep it off". WTF people?

Dieting for the vast majority of humans couldn't be simpler; eat less and exercise more. If it feels complicated to you its because you won't accept the most obvious facts in front of your face. I'm not saying you are stupid or retarded, just that you are choosing to act in a stupid and retarded manner (e.g. buying diet books).

My diet book consists solely of its title and makes me zero money: Eat Less, Exercise More. Done. That is fucking it. It is not complicated.

Nathan would sniff canned air. After a few seconds of inhalation he would pass out cold, head smack against his keyboard or a little bounce off carpet, just enough to make his hair dance up and down. He was a great guy. I never understood his motivations, but I knew he was a friend.

Cicero wrote "On Duties" ostensibly to his son as a type of instruction on how to be a quality person. This work has been appreciated far more widely than its dedication would indicate, enough so that it was hand copied for centuries, and now an anonymous individual like myself can easily get Amazon to deliver a dual language copy to my door step in two days. I wonder what Cicero would think about the longevity of his work and the diverse crowd of his new inheritors. I wonder if his son ever read it.