Reality

Monday morning and reality after the time change has set in. We have five months of winter to go through, and two months of unpredictable sledding. That is reality. It will be milder than the winters of my youth, due to man made climate change, higher Co2 and methane in the atmosphere, with greater retained heat from the sun than in my youth. Reality.

Reality. There is no god; therefore, all religions based on god are bogus; we need to life morally well, live by virtue, anyway. That is the only way the overpopulated mass of people can get along. Stoics call it cosmopolitanism. The Buddhist foundation virtue is compassion for all living creatures, but that is needed to be cautioned as some animals are needed as food, but a good life and quick death is the humane way, unlike the Muslim bleeding to death. It may have been quick in its day, but not now.

Reality is cruel for sure. We grow old, become in pain, and in the end we die. Modern medicine allows us to maintain life often, but not necessarily quality of life. At some point we may wish to stop care and even hasten our end. That is our natural right. Many of the issues of the past are no longer a common issue around here. Slavery sill exists in the third world, and in corners of the old world, perhaps in the deprived parts of the new second world.

The worst issue we have today is the religious pushing there sick values onto others. The world is overpopulated; human life has little value until there is a living wanted child. Abortion to one third term should be allowed without question, and to half term with reasons, most any reasons. The third or other/neither sex must be allowed to live unencumbered. Wishing to marry and the like creates animosity, but if they wish to legalizes there relationships, what is the harm. I have concerns of them raising children, but no more than with perverted natural parents. There will always be some child abuse... there is no way to avoid it. Government run rearing is not the answer, just look at the abuse of residential schools that took in children from remote areas, both native and immigrant children, and English boarding schools. They were bad but perhaps better than the enslavement that many of us suffered at the hands of our own parents.

Reality, our current public food system is purchaser choice driven. There are at least four decision modes, energy/nutrition, taste/pleasure/enjoyment, comfort/habit/emotions, and mind driven addiction satisfying. If any beyond the first enters the picture, weight could be a problem. In reality is is often preferred to control our eating at the store stage, do not bring crap home and it will not be eaten.

Reality, we need activity to provide the motivation and movement, especially for seniors. We need to keep our mind sharp and stay in reality, keep our morals high, and not succumb to the lour of easy money, pleasure, instant gratification dopamine fixes, but develop long term serotonin satisfaction. The young will need to come to know this, and the sex hormones will make that difficult. The population needs to be stabilized at a level that the earth Co2 handling keeps the value reasonable, < 300 ppm, or < 400 ppm, but that is not likely to happen. We will struggle on until the next mass extinction occurs.    

Reality, if our family are assholes or gooffiess, or nogoodnicks, we need not associate with them. Negative people are downers, so it is fair game to "there are no gods so your whole religion is based on bullshit."  We are each alone in our own heads. That is reality, some follow the traditions of the ancestors,  and some set out to modernize or rationalize our way of thinking.  Onward is our best decision today.