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Objective morality is a moral code of conduct that has consequences that exist outside the known universe and that can be applied the same to all people in all circumstances. The Ten Commandments are and example of what is intended to be objective morality. “Thou shalt not murder” is an example of something that most people will agree is always wrong, however there are several problems with this that don’t include the times the god of the bible told his followers to murder people. What is murder? Murder is killing someone without the need to kill them, killing in self-defense is not considered murder, killing in war is not considered murder but killing someone just because he said something mean to you is considered murder.

Let’s continue with the subject of murder and break it down to it’s moral basics. Defining the word murder in a way that separates it from other forms of killing is, in its most basic form, creating a moral standard around killing. Killing is the action, the reasons to kill are the morals. So saying that killing is ok in some circumstances but not in other circumstances is showing that the moral code is not objective, but subjective based around the circumstances. To clarify: if justification is allowed around the reasons one kills, then the action is not an objective moral.

Of course this line of reasoning is based around the concept that an action in itself is not moral or immoral. This concept derives itself from reasoning: when one discusses what is moral, one discusses the action itself very little and discusses the consequences of the action in great detail. This means that the action has very little to do with the moral decision, only the consequences. Of course the action is very important because, without the action, there can be no consequences. So in the commandment about murder, the morality is not the action of killing, it’s the justification for killing.

Now for the evidence. There is no evidence that there is any objective codes of conduct. None. Where do people get the Ten Commandments from then? From a bible written by men. Yes, the bible was written by men and not by a god. Men claim that the moral “laws” came from god, but the same commandments existed long before the bible came around, giving evidence that the god of the bible is either a plagiarist or the men that wrote the bible were. Not to mention there is no one coming back from the afterlife to let everyone know that a god did in fact give men a set of moral codes that have consequences after death. There is evidence that men wrote all the books of god, however there is no evidence that god had anything to with the books. The inaccuracies, contradictions, concepts in defiance with the known world and loss of material only serve as evidence that the books are not from a god, but from men.

Now a much easier question: how can one who blindly follows a set of morals without regard to situations, call themselves moral? In short: they can’t. They in themselves are acting without a moral conscience, they are acting out a script that was written for them. If god did tell them to always or never do a set of actions and those people acted without consideration of the consequences of those actions or inaction, then they themselves are not a morally conscious being. Those who act without respect to the consequences to their actions are immoral. So the question of their morality falls not to how they behave, but to whether or not it’s moral to blindly follow the rules of authority. In the case of the people who lied to Nazi Jew hunters, I don’t think that anyone would say that blindly following the authority of the Nazi’s would’ve been the good thing to do. So we can see that blindly following authority is not always good. So what makes following rules supposedly given by a god any different than rules given by other authorities? The answer is: blindly following authority means that you are acting immorally.

So how does one, despite the overwhelming lack of evidence, declare that objective morality exists? On faith. Because the “objective” morals themselves are subjective, there is no evidence that the morals come from some other source than humans and blindly following instructions is amoral: objective morality does not exist.

I am unsure where I should begin, so I will start with this…  I am angry and frustrated. I am not a Democrat, I am not a Republican; however I sway more to the older Republican ways. I am sure those of you that are educated know that those Republican ways did not endorse greed or a negative cognition as it is nowadays.

1. My daily drive to and from school is diluted with reruns in the main stream music world and I curse my self every time. Why on earth do I always forget one of “my few expensive devices given to me?” So in my own self defeat of the rerun radio stations in this “Republic” I turn to the radio station to one that airs none other than Rush Limbaugh and other “dare I say” jack ass sheep. Mind you, it is entertaining and sometimes humorous, though in my case very frustrating. Here I am, yes I was hopeful and still are for Obama’s goals. Does this mean I am a liberal retard? I hear these insults day after day and yes I can turn it off, and I do often; BUT first let me remind those of you who would advise this; I am curious about what is driving the ludicrous mindlessness and hatred in this country.
2. I will start off with Bush, and yes I know most my friends and trusted ones claim to be republican but, I am wary. When Bush was in office there were people I called Sheeple, (NO that is not a misspell). Lets get to the point, short and sweet. Had anyone no matter what “cutsie party” they claim to belong to, questioned the man or administration they would have been condemned as anti-American and disrespectful of the president. I am sure it has come up often, I am not the first to bring it up. But the truth is there and the facts of that are there.
3. Growing up my Grandfather was not an American citizen, he fought along side America though in the Canadian regiments. He was a Canadian Navy Soldier (he left his home at the age of 14), then a paratrooper and a Leader a of a platoon in the Korean war (I am not ashamed to not know the terms off hand, I know the value). The only time I have seen this man cry was when a member of his platoons family contacted him to thank him for carrying their Dad/Grandads lifeless body to their camp. Mind you he excused me from the room during this moment of emotion with a short proud manner.

This man, who adopted me as his own daughter, swore America was great, left a country he fought for only to be scrutinized and made fun of as if Canadians don’t fight, aren’t strong, don’t have a military, but there have been many times where Canada fought along with America. My entire family takes this and laughs with it, but to the point: he struggled to become a citizen in this country, and finally happened when I was 16 years old… lets put that into perspective. I am 3^rd generation on American soil, he is now 82 years of age and so proud but still working 12 hour days, my grandmother (who is blind), can no longer work to help their business and my grandfather must drive her around and take care of her needs. I’m not attempting an appeal to emotion, I’m just trying to define the amount of responsibility this man takes on himself and takes care of. Their business houses and assists with Mentally developed disabled individuals. This includes mental retardation through injury at an early age, down-syndrome (boy do I have stories for Sarah Palin and TriG), hearing/visual impairment… and anything you can think of to hinder ones capability to function with the rest of us “normal people”.

He runs it alone, and I feel guilty because they hoped I could help and I intend to after I finish the money sucking machine called college. I am sure any student calls it that. It is true though, I would have been finished with college four years ago if I didn’t have to worry about making it on my own. And even now I have to work full time with 1-2 classes per semester, and when I started with the opportunity to actually obtain a degree I was as excited as a kid is in a candy store as to what I wanted to be. So be it, it took me time to decide. My grandparents did not want me to or think I should go to school for a higher education. Now that is beyond the point I am trying to get across but much of that is the driving point for my thoughts of what is occurring now in society and the hatred and division in this country. That division and hatred did not exist as much as is does now prior to my grandfathers incessant need and want to be a part of it.

It’s amazing a man who is from Canada knows so much more about the laws and constitution and pays attention to politics and the finances than the average hoser that calls these radio shows and bitches about things they have yet to suffer or never had. Yes my grandfather or as I refer to the man “my dad,” lived the fable tale of the “American dream” but now he is also suffering it. Funding cut to help mentally developed disabled homes, and him paying 60 grand out of his pocket alone in 2009 to maintain the business and still paying 40 grand in taxes to a government that doesn’t know whether its coming and going. Social Security are my parents source of funds and the retirement that dwindles away paying for helping their kids in hard times and the business they want to maintain because they’re GENUINELY dedicated and care for these people. I know a few and I’m sure there are a few more families suffering like this.

My point is, he knew enough and paid attention enough prior to obtaining his official citizenship that he was well aware to answer my curiosity when I asked, “why hasn’t the new president fixed the crap people wanted him to, two weeks, months or even 6 months into the new term of the new pres.?” His answer was plain and clear… It takes time, most often two years to pass any new bills, law or even small changes to appear.

Here comes my beef with society now, and further more I would like to state I did vote for Obama, so yes that makes me a weenie. I was scared of all the antics of him being an anti-Christ and I really had to think, “how logical is this.” The birth certificate BS, the Muslim crap and associating him with his crazy pastor. How many people know what their pastors, priests or clergymen harbor in their privacy waiting for the moment of publicity, of course in reverend Wrights case it worked. Say the most outlandish BS at the appropriate time and you’ve got $$. Whatever the case I am NOT a pure Democrat, I am for the people and I am for responsibility, but you can’t be responsible if the benefit of expressing that attribute is held in front of you like a carrot on front of the tortoise

I am tired of hearing that this is the melting pot of cultures and beliefs when so many people spend so much energy to silence and control other cultures to such a crazy level. There is so much negativity it’s disgusting. During the Olympics I was so excited for Lysacek to win the Gold however while on the Olympic stat site, face book ran amok with negative remarks and insults toward others (mostly U.S citizens insulting other countries). We’ve become the playground bully. I wish I was going back to Canada, and I am sure by my saying that, most people would say “please go.” Point being, U.S citizens don’t only divide themselves within their own country with outlandish crazy almost laughable accusations and politics, but they do it on the citizen level with other countries when the Olympics are supposed to be a time of coming together. It’s disgusting, and insulting that I am in this mesh. As a Canadian/American I know that Canadians only wish well and congratulate. As it was said in the Olympic opening Canadians are defined by, “Please and Thank you”.

I hear Glenn Beck from time to time say he is a Constitutionalist and moans about changes or anything acting outside of his own beliefs or his self interests, but does he realize the Constitution is a living, evolving and growing document as proclaimed by our founding fathers? There is so much nonsense I cannot comprehend how anyone could spend the next three years of Obama’s first term listening to the news as the fish wife bickering continues.

This is my conclusion, the Rush Limbaugh people, the Bush people and super semantic individuals who refuse to reason need to remember this is a democratic republic. The parties were built as a means for various ideas to create the best of solutions, to create opposing scenarios and realistic objectives to each others ideas, to obtain the best of the best plans for our future. Obama is trying and we won’t know how well he can do unless the negative Nancys stop their bickering and work it out… without the crazy slander, high school BS. Until a true effort is given from both sides of the fence, NO ONE can place blame. Things take time, he is not a miracle worker but he is a positive person, that is it. I am NOT saying he is the means to an end or all that, but he has a better outlook than most of the American people listening to Fox or calling Rush to bitch about the working poor (look up working poor before bitching me out). Those who backed Bush should not be hypocrites and respect it and of course question authority but not with insults. If you have no constructive value to bring to the table than don’t vote, and don’t complain. Show intelligence and integrity; acting ignorant is embarrassing to the thinking population.

It is a sad situation now, were not doomed, but our attitudes are doomed. Money can drive a country to its knees but all in all how do the people act? Religions and mainstream thought and the over exaggeration of freedoms that people express in carrying fire arms, protesting being taxed with representation, letting children die because medical help is against their religion and many other ridiculous concepts. These are scary thoughts, I thought America as a whole lost one reason to hate and filled that gap by finding some other ridiculous thing to hate (Obama). Yeah I may hear others say “Think about how awful it would be to live in those other countries”, older ones… “the old country”… my answer is this. They have had hard times, tribulations, wars, famine, political turmoil but they are still here, and they look out for each other and they are friendly and welcoming. If everyone wants to just sit there and bitch, argue and bicker instead of doing what is needed to fix this country then I want no part in it.

If this seems emotionally charged, I apologize. I am trying so hard not to be affected but its hard not to since my family fought to be in this country and this is the landscape. This is four years of pent up BS that I sat back, soaked in, observed and now I am sort of not happy. Don’t hide behind insults, bring something positive to the damn table or shut the hell up.

–Anonymous

Hate, ignorance and hypocrisy… I’ll just label this as stupidity.  So how does one fight such a powerful foe? How does one defeat such a resilient enemy? If you don’t think stupidity is a prevalent and dire disaster in a bottle, just try to talk to some people, watch TV and/or listen to the radio. There are people that listen and believe these public personalities just because they’ve been brought up to never question certain things. People will fight you hand, tooth and nail defending the most ridiculous ideas spawned from mere speculation and confirmation bias just because it’s said with confidence.

How does anyone fight confidence? The biggest problem is that these radio personalities are bluffing… bluffing that they know what their talking about, bluffing that the majority of people will call it out and bluffing with a big bank against small fries. Of course they can fail many hands while the greater public goes all in and loses. You want change? You want things to stay the same? You want us all to jump into a time machine to find a long lost past that only truly existed in your diluted memories from infancy? Well it takes more than “I want the country the way it was when I was growing up” and other appeals to emotion. It takes reason well founded on the best evidence available, obtained without a course of action derived before researching.

Of course I’ve said nothing to help this problem. Seeing the world for what it is, throughout all known history… we as a human race have come far, so I have no doubt that we won’t reach the lofty goal of enlightenment, reason and peace one day… I just think we all can speed it up a little. Question authority. That is all it really takes… well that and listening.

Of course merely questioning authority isn’t enough just as that, there are some guidelines. Question all authority, it’s not enough to question the authorities you don’t agree with, the most dangerous authority is the authority you don’t question. Remember authorities should be authorities because they know what they’re talking about. Questioning someone who knows what they’re talking about should never be a problem (unless they have clearly answered the question several times), they should be able to explain it… if they can’t, then they’re not an authority worth shit. Not only should any trustworthy authority be able to explain their reasoning, they should be able to provide examples and in most cases cite research and/or facts that support their conclusions. I’ve seen too many times where some jackass will say they’ve “done the research” but fail to provide any kind of reasonable source for that “research” and more pathetically: fail to provide the points of data that lead them to that conclusion.

You don’t have to be rude, you don’t have to be nice, you don’t have to be neutral… you just have to be there. Don’t try to fight stupidity with fire, fight it with questions. There isn’t a liar around that can clearly explain their reasoning through many questions and there isn’t a question that an authority shouldn’t be able to clearly explain.

First of all, guns shouldn’t be smoking. Second of all there have been really bad snow storms that pretty much prove that global warming is a fraud concocted by aliens to try and terraform our planet by removing “greenhouse” gasses from the atmosphere because it’s poison to the aliens.

It’s so obvious it’s irritating that more people don’t see it! Let me spell it out to you:
10) It’s cold and snowing really bad so global warming is a fraud
9) Global Warming being a fraud means that thousands of scientists are lying
Since scientists wouldn’t just lie, it means that someone is controlling them
7) The only people powerful enough to control scientists are aliens, corporations or the shadow government
6) Corporations will have to innovate and spend time and money to adapt to green technology so they wouldn’t do it
5) The shadow government doesn’t need scientists to control things because they just kill people
4) So aliens are only ones with the means and motivation to create such a huge fraud
3) Aliens want to conquer other planets but they’re not just attacking us so they need to do something first
2) Since they’re more advanced, the only thing they’d need to do is terraform our planet
1) And since Global Warming is a hoax, “greenhouse gasses” must be poison to them

Since all the points are pretty steadfast after my first point, I’ll just offer up my evidence for why global warming is a hoax: It’s cold right now and snowing a lot. It’s like when you’re on trial accused of being a serial killer, you can just say, “If I was a serial killer, then why aren’t I killing right now?” Because that is the best evidence right?

Now the recent Subprime Court Decision may have made more than a few people angry and/or worried. I’m saying don’t worry about it, if you are worried, then you’re not thinking of things the right way. Since corporations will be seen as people they will have certain rights that human people won’t, but instead of taking those rights away from the corporations, I say give those rights to the people.

Corporations can dissolve then incorporate with the exact same people under a different name absolving them of all responsibilities and duties of the previous name. How sweet would that be for a human person? Just change your name and all previous debts, marriages, child support payments, contracts and credit are wiped clean. Think about how well big businesses will do when the people that owe them money suddenly don’t owe them that money anymore… the economy will be awesome!

Polygamy is something that is currently illegal, however instead of preventing corporations from merging with more than one other corporation, how about we just allow people to “merge” (in a legally binding way) with other people.

Slavery was abolished because of stupid human rights idiots, but now that corporations are people too, instead of giving corporations freedom from other corporations, let’s just bring back slavery where all the money one corporation makes must be given to the corporation that owns it… or “people” if you will.

Let’s say you want what some other person has, when big businesses want what another corporation has, they can buy them out and just take it. So you can buy out your neighbor, then you get his wife, kids, dogs, cats, cars, house, debt, boat and well all his stuff. Yeah! I’m going to buy out my neighbors because I want all their stuff!

And the coolest thing that you could do if we’re given the same rights of corporations: We can be part of other people. Think about owning stock in several other people thereby giving you the right to control what another person does, now think about getting the stock of thousands of people… you could have your own army of money makers that will have to pay you part of what they’re making and you can even give yourself bonuses for the hard work of owning stock in the people that are working!

There are many problems with this recent supreme court decision there have been many people claiming that it’s bad, or that it’s not democratic. Ha! democracy my arse! This is going to be the best country ever! The united states of Exxon, and I might move to Southern Texaco ’cause I like the area in the southern corporate division of the U.S. Exxon. So, let’s get this whole fascist thing crackin! Forget democracy, that’s old news! it’s time to let the corporations run the country… after all government is bad… right?

This morning I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, best of the left, it was a back episode aired on the one year anniversary of Obama’s inauguration. And I remember why I voted for the guy, his speeches were very motivational and concise not derisive nor negative like another campaign I remember. It seems to me to be the largest part of his election was the fact that he promise grandiose things which seemed to be the best thing we could possibly hope for in this country. And it should be expected that these things would take time (except repealing don’t ask don’t tell which seems to be the next thing this administration is working on). Health care has all but failed this time around because of the lack of public interest in further enriching corporations who insist on a welfare program namely forced participation in their health insurance plans. The health care issue is by far the largest issue that has come out of this administration so far and it seems he doesn’t quite know what the people want even though the polls have consistently shown that people want a public option. But it seems that our elected officials have given up on what the people want because the pressure of the six health care industry lobbyists per congressperson has drowned out our voices and I am going to propose two ways to solve the problem, eliminate lobbyists or constitutional amendment. to be continued…

Before you answer, try to look at your behaviors from an objective perspective. Ask yourself questions like: when I do the same things as everyone else, do I have my own reasons for it or do I just do as others do? Do you feel it’s easier to “get into the spirit” of things when there are others in the spirit or do you just do what you feel like doing? Are you with the crowd or are you a loner?

This is an important question to ask yourself, not because one is better than the other, but just so that you have a good idea of who you are. Solomon Asch conducted several experiments to determine how likely it is that a person would conform when they can clearly see that the majority is wrong. His study had shown that  virtually everyone would give an obviously incorrect answer just because everyone else was giving the incorrect answer. The study had also shown that just one person going against the majority resulted in the person giving the correct answer even when the dissenter gave a different incorrect answer.

What does this mean? Well it could mean very little for you, but it means a lot to me. I want to be right all the time, and if I can’t see when I’m wrong because everyone else is also wrong, it worries me. I need to make sure the concepts that define my reality are as close to reality as possible, this is important because I make decisions, I vote and I talk to other people. So are you the helpful dissenting voice even when you’re wrong or are you the harmful conformist who doesn’t care if you’re wrong?