Irony

Irony, my love scorned muse,

Bitter is your Faustian favor.

Though your presence brings disaster.

You give life its devilish flavor.

The Middle Ground Laws

1. The loudest members of a group do not necessarily represent its constituents. Loudness itself indicates extremity.
2. Unity and diversity can coexist in the absense of categories. A middle ground state is marked by such a coexistence.
3. A middle ground state is achieved when a population embraces its diversity and forgoes categorization.
4. A member of a group who does not in some way disagree with the consensus of that group cannot add to its diversity.
5. Categories poorly describe the human race because they greatly diminish diversity and often lead to stereotyping.

Not an Athiest

"I’m not an atheist and I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn’t know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understanding these laws. Our limited minds grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations."

-- Albert Einstein

Verbal Pet Peeves

Irregardless

Primarily, this is not a word! Some dictionaries have added it, but with extreme caveats. Secondarily, it does not mean what people intend it to. Regardless means without regard or careless. It is most often used to indicate the aforementioned condition is irrelevant and need not be considered. Irregardless would therefore indicate the opposite or negation of regardless, but people use it to mean the same thing.

Ideal (instead of Idea)

I've not heard this often, but I do. When I hear something like "I have an ideal" from a coworker, I often say "its good to have high standards. Now get back to work." I always get blank stares.

Where is it at?

Not only is this a hanging preposition, it is a redundant hanging preposition. Why can't you just say "where is it" instead of instead of mutilating the English language with your waste of words?

Politics

Individuals are smart, brilliant even, but collectively we are pretty stupid.

Advantage of Theism in Maintaining a Civil System

If a system cannot legislate morality, that system is doomed to anarchy. Without right and wrong, there is no need for justice.

Morality distinguishes right from wrong in a specific context.

Morality requires a context. It itself is not one. As such, a system must define a context or succumb to systemic decay and end in anarchy.

Modernism attempts to define its context a posteriori, but morality requires a margin of a priori context. Without external intervention such as a command architecture (as in communism) or propaganda, such a system will decay toward anarchy.

Relativism attempts to employ all contexts. A system can employ manifold contexts, but conflicts must be resolved by a more general context. Relativism presumes that no general context exists to resolve conflicts. Therefore, without external intervention, such a system will decay toward anarchy.

Theism suggests a single ultimate context for morality. Such a context allows a system to avoid decay.

A Spurious Corelation

There is a disturbing correlation in America today between wealth and skin color. The correlation is true by the numbers, but I believe it is completely phenomenological. I believe that we should not think of giving aid to minorities any more. The word minority is pejorative and I believe exceedingly racist (see more here). Instead, we should provide aid to poor people regardless of their skin color.

I wish I could get people to see that the left is NOT really for minorities, and the right is NOT really for the Christians. The right and the left are for one thing and one thing only: your vote. They could care less about you the voter. You are just a number to them reguardless of what they say.  

It is not a conspiracy, it is a mathematical reality.  It works like this.  In a system where people do not vote smart (see more here), the only candidates who get elected are those who model themselves after the collective.  The inflamitory properties of the candidates are exagerated and the gap grows greater between the arbitrary sides.  This is why we have two major political parties.  The two party system is maintained by this polerization which is fueled by the "stupid voting" that has been going on for far too long. In reality there shouldn't be two political parties there should be a hundreds of millions of them.  

Don't you see American. When it comes to your vote, You are not black, or Asian, or Hispanic. You are not a Depublican or Remocrat. You are an American! Act like one. Put away all of this hand wringing and childish devicivness. It is time for us to be one people.  Only then can we seek to be one world.

Please, end the tyranical reign of political parties. Vote smart in 2010.

I am not a Republican.  I am not a Democrat.  I am an American.