Friday, March 28, 2025

 

This blog post is in response to a Washington Times columnist, Everett, Piper.  On March 11, 2025, his column titled, "Democrats and common sense: Democrats are now officially the party of relativism, not reality”.  I hope he reads it and responds.


True!  Some of us liberals reject objective reality.   Like "the self-evident" "Truths" expressed in the Declaration of Independence 11 years before those who drafted a fundamentally flawed U.S. Constitution.  And some progressives have said “there is no such thing as a truth with a capital T”

But too many conservatives, including their Republican MAGA President too often use the phrase “common sense”!   In a completely backward way as Thomas Payne‘s famous pamphlet titled the same but brilliantly details. 

In his wisdom he expressed in that short document there is profound examples of 'self-evident truth'. First is the human reality that no individual can survive and thrive alone. We are each dependent on so many things that fail to arise in a shallow mind.   Like the fact that every human is 99.9 the same genetically, thus we are all related in the human family. 

The second reality that not all humans are angels. And we need a set of rules that keep us from killing one another. And finally, that rule set has only two goals.  They fit the primary goal that the human mind was engineered to acknowledge and to conserve, even if others' have lost their mind.  

All life forms are engineered by nature to survive and thrive.   This is a fundamental principle and self-evident truth anyone with logic can grasp.  And every individual has the right to use their freedom and protect themself and their family from anything.  But this requires they not infringe upon the freedom and security of others.  That they be virtuous to all.  

Unfortunately, most political parties and nearly every religion or economist philosophy are examples of relativism, and rarely reality. In other words, they have no 'common' sense of 'being' - other than their tarnished gold rule applied consistently only giving power to who has the gold.

Relativism is a philosophical argument that some mind created under the delusion that there is no objective truth.  I encourage people with this mindset to jump off a 50-story building to prove gravity is not an objective truth.

The greatest flaw of our human mind is its ability to construct its own subjective truths.  Usually suited to their relative needs or circumstances. And a profoundly limited understanding of real life.

One this flawed human habits is evidenced in their political, religious, economic, and spiritual subjective truths.  These are toxic to life on earth.  And if human laws fail to enforce justice, chaos will inevitably reign supreme.   

If a liberal believes what is right for them may be the exact opposite of is right for others they are ignoring the law of non-contradiction. And if such a liberal is reading this right now. Their mind existing in cognitive dissonance is obviously saying “ whatever!”  While in a conservative arguing to often uses the tactic of gaslighting, or 'YA BUTTING' to get off track from encountering a self-evident truth some liberal is defending.

Too many conservatives appear unable to get over their foolishly flawed mental construct that in nature, there is only males and females.  When in fact genetic variation is in every aspect of life. In every human being, being human.  As well as nearly every biological multicellular organism that was not cloned.   And that fetuses are not yet babies. But in their mind, they can believe anything they want. Just as liberal minds often do.  But there are absolutely absolute truths. 

Truths are only fluid and ignorant minds within either party seeking political power.  In the words of Os Guinness, “Truth is true, even if no one believes it, and falsehood is false, even if everyone believes it. Truth is true, and that’s just the end of it.”

And until this world view is understood by every mind committed to surviving and thriving that our species is endangered, along with many other life forms on this gifted planet, because of Truth Decay.  The real world we live in is not self-referential. It is endowed by God, whatever you believe him, he or it to be.  And is not created by consensus of we flawed and vulnerable immortals.

In fact, we cannot live without fundamental truths. Consider engineering without math and the absolute that 2+2 = 4.   Try building anything that defies the law of gravity. 

The denial of absolute truth is simply a denial of logic. And if you claim there are no absolutes, you’re actually proving you have one.

“Live and let live” is tolerable if one person is not trying to kill the other. But if they is a fundamental purpose of life that liberals often ignore.  They try to ban weapons.

The bottom line is that both parties and most people in the United States. Ignore the wisdom of common sense.   And make themselves irrelevant to the survival of themselves, their families, and the United States itself.  No one can be pro science if they deny biology, physics, chemistry, and DNA.

And you cannot be pro-American with our foundational ideals of freedom and common sense - if you think defending borders and creating illegal immigrants is what God intended for humanity. And unless President Trump and his mega minions grasp this fundamental purpose that God has for all of us, may God forgive him and them for their delusions.   And save us all from their insane beliefs and those of liberals, who hold polarized views of reality. 

And if you would like to help spread this particular sane worldview, send an email to Project250@earthlink.net.

 


Sunday, March 16, 2025

US REFUSES SUPPORT for UN Sustainable Developmemt Goals

 FYI:  I just found this today.  Seems like mainstream media might be missing some important things...that will have very detrimental consequences to American health, national security, and future prosperity.  Or all the list serves I'm on are busy covering other chaos the MAGA maniacs are creating...

THE UNITED STATES REFUSES SUPPORT FOR THE U.N.'S AGENDA 2030

Posted date: March 11, 2025

In a statement which reaffirms the Trump Administration's fight against DEI and ESG, U.S. representative to the United Nations Edward Heartney told the assembly that the United States "rejects and denounces the Agenda 2030 for sustainable development and the sustainable development goals, and will no longer reaffirm them as a matter of course."


Saturday, March 15, 2025

"God does not make immigrants" Nationalism does.

 

Nationalism is created in the human mind.  It (we the people) creates an identity and a mindset that believes one nation's people, or subset of that nation, is superior the rest.  But according to "the Laws of Nature...(our DNA) and of Nature‘s God" (the golden rule) all people are born equal and endowed with "unalienable rights".  And the first fundamental right of all living things is freedom.  The God given agency to survive and thrive.  To move if needed, to keep itself and its family safe and secure.  But over the last 3000 to 5000 years humans (supposedly 'civilized people') created politics, new religious identities, and economic systems. About 400 years ago the practice of drawing lines on a map attempted to ensure that those within those lines (at least a minority or the majority) would be better off than the rest of humanity.  And 16 months short of 250 years ago a document was written that recognized this repressive foolishness and stated the Truth.  The "self-evident" "Truths" that all humanity should hold.

Unfortunately, the laws of all 200+ nations in the world have created their own set of laws.  Two sets. one for each nation.  And one for all nations.  But these two types of law sets...are both set to fail. And fail catastrophically.  These two sets of laws are significantly different in one fundamental aspect. 

National laws are enforceable by the government, be they just laws or not.  And international law is not enforceable. It's more a set of hopeful wishes that assert the self-evident truth that all humanity is blessed with inalienable rights.  But not blessed with the power to enforce them. 

Both sets should raise the question are they legitimate laws if freedom and justice for all is ignored? 

Meanwhile, national governments can enforce regulations on many things. First is who and what can cross their border.  And these governments can even discriminate against minorities or majorities within their governed area delineated by a line that a few humans drew on a map.  Not God. 

This may be the best example of a global violation of a self-evident truth (fundamental principle, human value...).   Collectively, humanity must learn to abide by this "Truth" and many others, or face, perpetual chaos with its growing and horrific costs in lives and dollars, environment destruction, and what little progress civilization has given to many, thus far.

Humanity now has unprecedented capacity for sustainable living for all, for generations to come.  And the capacity for global communication to educate and inspire everyone to their greatest mental, physical and spiritual level.  And hopefully a level of wisdom to transform our current governing systems to abide by the fundamental principles founded on objective Truths, not the personal or political ideologies that are driving our species to ecocide and suicide.  This current mindset is humanity's insanity that still held by too many 'patriotic' nationals, with far too many 'good' Christians, Jews, and Muslims ignoring this reality.  This stubborn mindset confirms the human mind's capacity to believe anything!  And continue defending that flawed belief regardless of its potentially catastrophic impact on the human family!  

Project 250 is an attempt to inoculate humanity against this Truth decay with the intention of preventing more predicable calamity and insanity. 

To make the most of your God given human agency on this troubled planet, endorse Project 250.  Give it swift legs to travel around the world quickly before the 250th anniversary of the 1776 Declaration of Independence July 4, 2026.  It still emphasizes human freedom as the highest American ideals established 11 years before the United States was created.  This profound idealism has already been expressed in over 50 other nations by leaders committed to liberating their followers from the conditions of unjust governments.  

What are you doing to change this?

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Friday, March 14, 2025

Everything in the world is changing! Except our minds.

 Things Change.  Adapt or perish.  Rotary International’s 1959 game plan needs an update.

Rotary International was founded 120 years ago by a small collection of businessmen committed to peace.  A World War followed shortly.  And then a second world war.   Given this mass murder of mostly good people, some wise souls of Rotary International published a profound book in 1959 to inspire their members and the world with a 60 page book detailing Seven Paths to Peace.   

Understandably driven by the war that killed over 60 million people, a horrifying genocide of up to 6 million, and a new terrorizing new weapon capable of vaporizing tens of thousand of lives in less than three seconds, something must radically change.

Ris 1959 book is now free to the public and anyone still serious about preventing another world war that civilization might not recover from in decades, if at all.

https://rotaryactiongroupforpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Rotarys-Seven-Paths-To-Peace-book.pdf

Since then, the evolution of weapons and war has been growing exponentially due to advancements in technology.  And other devastating forces have arose that threatens every civilization on earth.

Unfortunately, since the 1948 creation of the United Nations (with RI’s insider participation), the human mind’s limited linear capacity for learning combined with its capability of believing almost anything – humanity’s global governance system has not changed.  It remains unenforceable and simply unsustainable. 

The UN charter basically cemented this dysfunctional system into place.  It prioritized an inherently flawed structure that established the protection of National Sovereignty over the protection of human rights and the environment.  It codified the illusion of independence in our persistent and irreversibly interdependent world.  

Making matters worse, national and global politics have changed more in the last two months than the last 80 years.  But not in the direction of might makes right, great wealth can buy almost anything/anybody, with both Truth and virtue near obsolete.  And in the last 50 days with Donald Trump clearly winning the 2024 Presidential election, what little stability our global systems had, is now off the road, flipped over, and sliding backwards into chaos.

There was no doubt by the poorest half of humanity that both the global governance system and its unregulated economic system needed to change.   Populist movements have been winning in so called ‘democratic nations’ because they could not stop the disruptive global forces that elected independent nations could not stop with walls or weapons.  But that was what ignorant and delusional strong leaders promised.  And now comes the suffering and hopefully awakening of the need for not just minor changes. But a global transformation that accepts humanities biological reality that “Everything is connected, everything is interdependent, so everything is vulnerable.... And that’s why this has to be a more than whole of government, a more than whole of nation [effort]. It really has to be a global effort....” Jen Easterly. CISA director.  Oct. 29, 2021. [the Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency is our nation’s newest federal agency established in 2018].   https://www.c-span.org/video/?515706-1/protecting-critical-infrastructure    FYI: Trump created CISA in his first administration.  And hired Jen Easterly as Director.  She was only recently replaced.  It may have been because CISA was recently hacked.  LEARN THIS!  And share it with others.  ‘Everything’ is an autological word – defining itself.  This means every cyber connection, cell in our body, strand of DNA within them...and every leaf, fruit, and energy source we have or consume.

There should have been no resistance to changing the ‘Norm’ of the status quo.  And there is no going back to a normal that quietly allowed the daily deaths of over 11,000 children from easily preventable malnutrition and infectious diseases -even when there was no war, genocide, famine, violent extremist killers, or extreme weather conditions.    Expect that number now to grow significantly, because all the non-profit organizations in the world cannot replace what significantly good US aid agencies and US aid funding had been doing for three fundamental reasons that benefited all Americans and the world.  Moral, economic, and security.

The survival and thriving of our species hinge upon humanity coming together with a grounded sense of reality (fundamental truths, objective truths, Truths we hold to be self-evident…). United we stand a chance. Divided we’re toast. In this context humanity must urgently prioritize achieving the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In 2025 we are now 5 years away - and with insufficient progress.  Our actions must be accelerated to achieve these with integrity.  We must become a united ‘force of nature for nature’ by prioritizing health over wealth.  This challenge defines our poly-crisis era. And we are running out of time.

"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man:
to know what he ought to believe;
to know what he ought to desire;
and to know what he ought to do."
-- Saint Thomas Aquinas   (1225-1274) Italian philosopher and theologian

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."  -- Soren Kierkegaard   (1813-1855) Danish philosopher

“The strength or weakness of his society depends more on the level of a spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. If a nation, spiritual energies have been exhausted, it will not be saved from collapse by the most perfect government structure or by industrial development. A tree With a. Rotten Rotten core cannot be saved. “ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot unlearn the lies they have been taught to believe.” - Alvin Toffler

 “It is the duty of everyman, so far as his ability allows, to detect and expose delusion and error.” - Thomas Paine

“Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.” Rousseau

 "The earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound.  Children no longer obey their parents,  every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching."  -- Assyrian Tablet   Source: c. 2800 BC [also attributed to Socrates]

 As Astronaut Rusty Weikart said, we must act “as crew members on space ship earth not just passengers.”

 "The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others." Albert Schweitzer

 

"Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time." - Marian Wright Edelman

 "No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and
this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him."  -- Thomas Jefferson

 “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”   Martin Luther King, Jr.

 “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings,so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.”  Socrates (a wrestler)

 “For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.” - Neil deGrasse Tyson (another wrestler).

 “[O]ne of the most refined (and rare) certainties of liberalism is that historical determinism does not exist. History has not been written so as to negate any further appeal. History is the work of men, and just as men can act rightly with measures that push history in the direction of progress and civilization, they can also err, and by conviction, apathy, or cowardice, allow history to slide into anarchy, impoverishment, obscurantism, and barbarism. The culture of democracy can gain new ground and consolidate the advances it has achieved. Or, it can watch its dominions shrink into nothingness, like Balzac's ‘peau de chagrin’. The future depends on us--on our ideas, our votes, and the decisions of those we put in power.   Mario Vargas Llosa, Liberalism in the New Millennium [2000]

 "Everything is backwards; everything is upside down.  Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information, and religions destroy spirituality."  -- Michael Ellner

"We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself. He is the great danger. And we are pitifully unaware of it. We know nothing of man ... far too little. His psyche should be studied -- because we are the origin of all coming evil." - C.G. Jung

 "We have it in our power to begin the world over again." -  Thomas Paine

 "There's a man who is my brother, I just don't know his name.
But I know his home and family because I know we feel the same.
And it hurts me when he's hungry and when his children cry.
I too am a father, and that little one is mine."- John Denver

 There is a photograph of the Earth, dated February 14, 1990, taken by Voyager spacecraft from 4 billion miles away.  It is a pale blue dot, smaller than a pixel, surrounded by blackness.  Sagan wrote:   “Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.  Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, Copyright © 2006 by Democritus Properties, LLC.   November 26, 2024   One Page Perspective #99

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” – Carl Sagan

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.  Socrates

"All our lauded technological progress - our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal." - Albert Einstein

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." -  Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do." -  John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)

"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples." - Mother Teresa

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." - Maya Angelou

"I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated." Malala Yousafzai

"The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in its imperial rhetoric, as a 'civilizing mission'."
-- James C. Scott   Source: Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998), p. 82

The quotes above and those below are from people I consider heroes.  Charles Darwin is another. His observations of life on this planet led him to a concept that allows us to understand the origins of the characteristics of most life forms today…and why they persist, evolve - or go extinct. I’ve tried to apply his approach to whatever level I can to reducing human suffering or prevent a massive loss of human life or native plant/animal species.  Most preventable deaths and suffering today are perpetuated by the flawed characteristics of our national and global political systems. These persist in exerting increasing complications into our world’s natural system’s, accelerating disrupting trends.  And ‘we the people’ mostly allow it.  We have forgotten that as long as humans remain tied to earth - mother nature will always have the last vote. 

“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.” Charles Darwin

"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us, "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security." -  Albert Einstein

"Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society"   Albert Einstein 

If Einstein were alive today, I believe he would expand this pearl of wisdom to include that recognizing and accepting our interdependence is ‘essential to sustainably maximizing humanities freedom and security.”  And the survival of our species.

The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive your own way of doing that which needs to be done - that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual. R. Buckminster Fuller

"You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others. Make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone." ~ R. Buckminster Fuller

 “My belief is to make the world work for 100% of humanity, and the shortest possible

time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage

of anyone.”  ~ R. Buckminster Fuller 

 

 "Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?"  -- Socrates  (469-399 B.C.) Greek philosopher & wrestler.

“From our orbital vantage point, we observe the Earth without borders, full of peace, beauty and magnificence, and we pray that humanity as a whole can imagine a borderless world as we see it, and strive to live as one in peace.  William C. McCool, Pilot. Last flight of the Columbia Space Shuttle.

“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity" - Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are."  -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic

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