Cultural Issue

http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2016/04/11/suicide-crisis-grows-at-ontario-first-nation/

Once more we see the cultural norm of failure to adapt to the existing society norm come into play. If non-natives were to live in groups like that, without sufficient motivation, do you think it would be any different?

People need purpose in there lives. If you do not have one, create one and get on with it. Residential schools have been gone for fifty some years, get over it; they are not the cause of the problem. The cause is there unwillingness to make big cultural changes necessary to adapt to the modern culture. Natives want to live in southern conditions in the north, but are unable to develop base industry to support that lifestyle (base industry are ones where the money comes from far away in exchange for products). The residential schools were an attempt to correct what we saw as the problem. Many whites went through boarding school issue as well. Either live and work where there are schools or waste the next generation; it is not difficult to understand. 

Natives are a society in transition, from family group to small tribal, to now organized communities. They have just not adapted, and with modern communications, they see the way we live, and we see back. When we stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back.

In native society, starvation was the limiting factor in population growth, and had been for years. Human population can easily triple four times a century, given sufficient food. It was a near full time effort to obtain food, close, shelter, for clan and neighboring clans. Where lack of food did not control, the area they could defend as there home range took the remainder to defend. Tribal societies are never at peace for long, territory is always in need for expansion, as the population always has need for more. That is just the way it is. Farming allowed more food production, now it is water that is the governing factor, and the Co2 release from energy production. Which do you want the next war to be over?        

Suicide was and is a cultural right. The door is always open, and it was often used as a method of preventing suffering among the elderly; and suffering in general. The adults would walk away from the old and infirm when moving camp seasonally. How much has there culture has changed?

Caffeine, sugar, too much starches, tobacco and alcohol... all leave the human susceptible to depression. Quit consuming eating the shit, and get on with what you see as your purpose for your life, beyond reproducing; there are too many people already. If you have no purpose, create one.

Their is little sympathy for the native among the working, there is lip service mostly, and a few liberal do-gooders, but only if someone else is paying the bills. The US has there blacks, Canada has its natives.

But what do I know anyway?    

Idiot Muslims

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/04/07/bangladeshi-official-in-response-to-murdered-atheist-will-investigate-his-blog-for-offensive-posts/

Bangladeshi Police Tell Atheist Bloggers to Stop Criticizing Religion if They Want to Avoid Being Killed

Bangladeshi Official, in Response to Murdered Atheist, Will Investigate His Blog for Offensive Posts

There is no god, therefore all religions are bullshit. We have free speech. With non-rational attitudes like this, what can one do?

It is not safe to travel to these countries.

They think like emotional children. "I want it my way. I do not want to deal with reality or with other people who do not think like I do. I want. I want." (jumping up and down, fists closed, screeming) So they go out and kill the offender. Is that civilized? 

If the peace loving Muslims do not speak out and do something, all Muslims will be tared with the same brush.

and one more http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/04/07/muslim-killer-has-no-ill-will-towards-christianity-but-that-filthy-blasphemer-had-to-die/

But what  do I know?

 

Negligent Government

Negligent Government

The government of Alberta NDP have stopped sending out renewal notices for licenses. Oh joy. Now we are responsible for even more. THe government can now rake in more fines for expired licensees.

The government has now relieved the banks of the burden of providing only sound loans and are allowing the banks to seize the depositors money to stay afloat. Oh joy. It allows million dollar salaries, and no liability, That is a receipt for legal fraud. The bastards.    

What does it mean to be an athiest?

There is no god, no life after death, no stories of how we go here, or how earth came to be, no rebirth, no reincarnation, It is not negative, it is just the truth. Anyone who believe any of those things believe in supernatural things which do not exist except in your minds. Fiction.

Now that we have those negatives out of the way, We start to build. I have only this life to leave my mark on the world. I am responsible for leaving this world as a better place, so it is up to me to educate those who want to understand the truth. If they do not want to know, they can believe whatever they want. The prime directive applies.

The purpose of human life is to flourish as a species. Individually, anything that aids flourishing is a value to the society. Positive psychology is the model of behavior I think is the most logical.

Morals are simply what is the best for our society, and for all involved. We can search these out as what is common between the better religions, but there is so little common in details. In general though, most suggest that we live virtuous lives, and eliminate vices. Which are virtues, and which are vices, though is not so clear. If we merge Stoicism, Buddhist, and Confucianism together, the best outline for a good life emerges.

It starts with do not unto others as you would not permit to be done to you. There is space between the that and the do unto others as you would they do unto you. The virtues look like; proper behavior, rigorous honesty, truth, compassion, justice, courage, fortitude, nonviolence in civilian population (excludes police and military), and a long list. Vices include faith, hope beyond opinion, violence, theft, fraud, and a long list. We are responsible, and therefore I want to not do any harm to others or myself as a objective. This puts me in a more moral position that many religious persons who follow brutal old traditions. 

We must think before we act. I am responsible, so I want to know the reason I do things, not blindly follow without reason or without thinking. Anyone who will not give reason should not be followed, and if there reason is bad, it should not be followed either.

I need to stop at some point, but there is a book of reasons and discussion. But what do I know?    

disenfranchised youth

I got into a discussion where "disenfranchised youth" term came up with respect to our natives. This is the wrong term so often. Nobody has taken the vote away from them, they have chosen not to participate in our society. Any one who chooses not to be part of our society, and to follow our society's rules of behavior  could truthfully be called many things but disenfranchised youth is not one of them.

We see the same term being used for the Muslin,  "disenfranchised youth", to describe terrorists. It seem all terrorist are Muslin, but not all Muslin are terrorists, but what is it about the Muslin's that make them easy to convince to become terrorists? Is it they are not rational, and believe what there ancestors and elders tell them? They cannot separate bullshit from reality?  The problem is that they, and in most religions cannot separate bullshit from reality and speculation? 

We have a problem in English language and our current culture. We allow odd meaning of words that are less offense that the truth. The Trudeau government allowing banks to steal our money with "bail-in" for example. The government is allowing banks to exchange our money for there worthless shares. All it what it is, bank fraud, and see how far they get.

Once we get down to rigorous truth, all religions are bogus, man made schemes of "ways of thinking" that distort reality into a more pleasing "reality" and we each live in our own reality. Once we get down to rigorous honesty and truth, we become a group of individuals who do not tolerate others reality very well, especially if their "reality" is not real.

This all is making my head ache. Rigorous honesty and religion are incompatible. But what do I know?   

  

You are backing Trudeau

Trudeau has slipped a bail-in. So now the banks and the government are safe and the depositors/creditors are on the hook. Long term creditors are the depositors. Now what? We are  unwittingly backing  this ludicrous spending of the Trudeau.

If you are in debt, it does not matter, but in early retirement, our reserves should the highest of our life, even if some or all is tied into long term investments and land. 

Paper Page 223
http://www.budget.gc.ca/2016/docs/plan/budget2016-en.pdf



Here are the links:

Did you see what Justin Trudeau slipped into the budget this week, hidden away on page 223?

It’s called a bank “bail-in regime”.

That means if a Canadian bank starts to fail, it would be allowed to seize your bank account to pay its bills. Seriously.

It’s what they did in Cyprus three years ago, when bankers there made risky loans to Greece. In a back-room deal, politicians and bankers decided to pay off the bank debts by just seizing 10% of everyone’s deposits.

The country had a melt-down. Banks closed, ATM withdrawals were limited. It was a disaster. Of course, well-connected insiders got all of their cash out in time.

It’s all right there in black and white in Trudeau’s budget. Click here to see for yourself.
This outrageous proposal is not yet law. But if Canadians accept it in silence, it will be.

We’ve got to fight back now — or face legalized theft like they did in Cyprus.

Sign our petition now by clicking here. And please forward this e-mail to all your friends.

Yours truly,

Ezra Levant

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The old way

http://theawesomer.com/making-a-bow-arrows/361056/

the new way

http://www.bow-international.com/features/technique/the-thinking-side-of-archery/ 

and here is one more on an unrelated subject
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/06/18/10-key-excerpts-from-pope-franciss-encyclical-on-the-environment/ 

Pope is infallible is bullshit, we are authorities, control freak thinking. He is not rational on this point. So the pope does not think it has to to with population? Bullshit. It is largely population. If we look at the detailed carbon content, it is confusing, but since the late 1960, the population has doubled, and co2 has gone wild.
Here is a typical https://claudiocassardo.wordpress.com/2013/05/
or http://www.planetforlife.com/co2history/

Population control will be the only solution that will work, long term. We need to return to something 3-4 Billion to survive long term. We need to get rid of religion/passion based thinking and get to logic based decisions. We need to lower the demand on our planet, and the system will correct it's self. If we do not, climate change will be nature's response, and just watch those in the hot dry climates die off. We can slow the growth of carbon dioxide production, but do you think the developed countries are going to allow their lifestyle to be drawn down to third world levels?

Note that seasonally carbon dioxide varies, and declines in the summer seasons.

The only way to get to a negative population growth is through education and contraception. One Child is too much, but a world one child policy is the way to start. We will go through a population aging phenomena, but that will pass. It will be painful, but doing nothing will be worse, for there will be more that die off if we do nothing.   

But what do I know?

and then this fine piece of Stoic re-definition shows up

1. Wisdom (sophia), (concerns appropriate acts) knowledge of what one is to do and not to do and what is neither
2. Courage (andreia), (standing firm) knowledge of what is terrible and what is not terrible and what is neither.
3. Justice (dikaiosyne), (distributions) knowledge of the distribution of proper value to each person, and
4. Temperance (sophrosyne), (human impulses) knowledge of what is to be chosen and avoided and what is neither