Don't call people animals!

It is popular by atheists, to call humans for animals, to point out the evolution from the lower life forms and not created as an entity of itself outside of the animal kingdom.

Despite evolution, it is still wrong to call humans for animals. Being call an animal is commonly used as an insult, and it is a great barrier for many to overcome and abandon a religion when those pesky atheists keeps insisting on calling one an animal. Many people therefore retain the belief of some sort of something somewhere because they feel that they are not animals, and in extreme cases evolution is denied for this simple reason.

Why it is insult to be called an animal and which role religion played in it is irrelevant. Because the difference between humans and the rest of animal kingdom is big and observable by all, namely the difference in intellect, and this unique human trait intuitively make us separate "them" (stupid animals) from "us" intelligent humans.

Because we have as "intelligent" humans a tendency to separate "us" from "them" and every time one have to face "us" being not all that different from "them" after all it creates a problem.

Today we are not able to overcome the racial barriers, we still view each other as "us" and "them" and not "we the people", not even that even within same country there are always "us" and "them", it is everywhere. And when we are not able to overcome it between us humans where the difference is so small, how can we expect people to relate to the "animals" as "us" and not "them" when the difference is so great?

Perhaps one day we will reach the level when we accept our selfs as animals to our selfs, will feel unity with the earth from which we came, and live in some new age paradise, but until then it is better to tell people that we evolved to "human". I.e. keep the separation between different kinds of animals, so that this feeling of "us" agains "them" is preserved until the facts sink in.

Simply put, this is the transitional form from "creatures of god" to "animals", which is currently the missing.

This though, as written earlier does not justify any behavior with motivation "we are just animals" because you are the animal with a brain capable of more then other animals. As an ape does't think "i am just an animal" and then go an drown in the nearest lake trying to act like a fish. So should you not think "I am just an animal" and go acting like an ape in the streets.

// End of rambling

Oppose perfect society

We all want to live in an perfect society, where there is no crime, and everyone are happy.

Recently there are trends all over the world especially in the west towards increased surveillance of its citizens in the name of security and law enforcement. One step closer to perfect society, where there is no crime or terrorism. Happiness is some other department apparently or your own problem, anyway:

The strongest argument agains increased surveillance is often one of the privacy, which is usually counteracted with "if you don't have anything to hide, you should not worry", to which there is an usual counterargument of "the information can get into wrong hands".

Even though those arguments agains increased surveillance are good they don't touch the fundamental problem of it all and there are therefore no real observable change in the policies, increased surveillance of citizens is on the march in many countries, to prevent terrorism, to prevent piracy, to prevent crime, or anything which needs preventing.

But the problem is not about wrong people getting hold of the information, because it is unintended, and everyone arguing for the increased surveillance will claim that it will never happen, the problem is in "right people", striving for the perfect society, having this information.

Because who are the "right people"? It is predominantly the government. Government is also the entity shaping the future of the society and exercising power over people. Government of the people, for the people, went out the window when it made it's first decision or law not supported by the majority of the people.

There are certain thing we don't want anyone to know, certain thing we have already forgotten or would rather forget. All of us has some things we don't want anyone to know about, something we are not proud of, or mistakes we have made, it doesn't necessary have to be something illegal.

Hence as the surveillance spreads such things get increasingly difficult to conveniently forget, more and more data about you are recorded in different ways, depending on the country you live in. As storage get cheaper more information can be stored for longer time.

And as the trend continues you loose the control over the information, your ability to choose what you don't want to disclose diminishes with increased surveillance, and instead becomes a matter of necessity for looking it up, i.e. the government will have a way to just look up people of interest and get the information about them from all the different sources which are available to them.

The sources might vary from county to country and you can probably dig up somewhere the ways your government monitors you citizens.

Having enough information stored about you it is always possible to make a case against you. It is just a matter of having enough of different ways to gather accurate information. At this point there might not be any country capable of doing this.

But as technology evolves it becomes possible to store information such as medical record, financial record e.t.c. for long period of time and get accuracy by for example face recognition on CCTV cameras, movement tracking, vehicle tracking by registering number plates on traffic cameras, or simply gps tracking, phone record of people you have been in contact with, record of people you emailed, keywords used in search engine, websites visited, e.t.c.

Even if you haven't driven too fast at any time in your life, smoked a joint, done some undeclared work e.t.c. is there nothing in your life that would be possible to classify as antisocial behavior?

If a girl/boy/woman/man knew everything about you on the first date, would you get a second?

If employer knew everything about you, would you get the job you have?

If the government knew everything about you, would you be viewed as a good citizen today?

Have you lived a perfect life? No? Then oppose "perfect society" when government promises it. Because in such society there is no room for you.

Being experienced is risky, but you can keep faking it

When a boy begins to shave, he is unexperienced, indecisive, his hand shakes, and he will cut himself. Only when he gets experienced he will become decisive, and will act with certainty, this is when he stoops shaking and hurting himself.

No matter how bad at shaving you are in the beginning, it is not feasible to avoid it, hence you will get better. But there are other situations here in life, when people go around avoiding things they want to do due to this fear and indecisiveness, hence never getting better at it, never getting what they want.

Sometimes it's hard to try something new, but think about if you really want it, and if you do, go for it once, you might get cut, but let it heal and try again, if you still want it. Make sure you don't intensionally cut others in the process, because whatever is useful experience for you, might not be useful for someone else, since people are at different places in life.

An indecisive and uncertain person is a person always in fear of trying something new, and therefore not having the experience to be certain when posed with a decision or a question. More likely to avoid it all together, just sinking deeper into swamp of indecisiveness.

But don't confuse the indecisiveness with the profound "Meh", when person has so much experience he is so wise he sees no difference between the trivial things you might consider of importance, such as which movies is the best one, what tastes better, which car is better e.t.c.

Don't be afraid to take the first step and act on it, guess what is right if you don't know it or can't learn it from other peoples mistakes, if you are wrong you will find out. We are all living in a world of fools, the only difference is that majority are afraid to admit it and show it, and those that do are the only ones who do get wiser. That is, instead of getting wiser, we are trying harder to hide our foolishness, hence everyone around seem increasingly wiser, while in reality only accomplish it by hiding the true self, but also by avoiding doing risky things and getting truly wiser. Hence the disconnect between what is perceived and how it really is just keeps increasing, and it gets increasingly difficult to make the first step, because it seems that everyone around you are flawless.

Hence we find us increasingly disconnected form the world around us, seemingly not fitting in, and generally failing at it, creating the foundation for depression. And also why we have difficulty trusting other people, because we do no know if what we see is truly so or if it only is a mask to deceive us.

But if you can play that game, avoid taking risk, avoiding getting hurt, leaning form mistakes and instead are able to put on the appearance of being experienced, why should you take the hard path?

You can be wise, but why?

What is beyond knowledge and matter?

As early homo sapiens smashed things to achieve something, as stones were smashed together to create sharp stone tools, and fire, so did modern man split atoms, and then protons in order to understand matter.

Fire often represents knowledge, first step towards modern man. Now we have attained knowledge and scientific method and we move on to smashing and splitting things in order to understand matter.

In an unimaginable future far from now, when we have understood matter, what it is and where it comes from, what will we smash then, to understand what?

Without love, arrange divorce.

Arranged marriages are the ting of the past, arranged divorces are the thing of today.

To the extent of my limited knowledge in the subject I think that arranged marriages were practiced everywhere in the world at some point in time.

Though today many cultures have moved away from the traditions of arranges marriages in an attempt to find the life partner based on love and personal preferences, it is figured it to be the better choice.

Though when people get married or move in together, practical problems arise, and compromises need to me made, and eventually one will slide down into the problem of making it fair and balanced, start to arrange who does what and when, this is the first sign of the path to divorce, since at this point the discussion is not about "us" but about "me" vs. "you".

If you really love a person, you should naturally be willing to assist and make life better for that person, this also includes not burdening your loved one unnecessary. If both partners love each other and act accordingly, both will have the other one at their side in time of need, and neither will feel exploited.

If neither acts with love towards each other, but instead the life together is arranged and scheduled, neither will have their parter at their side in time of need, because such times can not be scheduled ahead, both will try to negotiate a better deal for themselves so that they don't feel exploited by the other, and where is the love in that?

When we figure out that not only marrying by love but also living together by love is better than arranging a life together we will observe fewer divorces.

Умные не запускаются!

Насколько человек умный определяется степени углубления в выбранном им направление!

Например, физик, ботаник, будет выглядеть очень умным среди других академиков так как он проводит большинство своего времени зубря гранит науки, но в социальной среде он будет выглядеть очень глупым не зная что сказать девушке которая ему нравится, так как он учил физику вместо того чтобы разговаривать с людьми и учится общению.

Как не крути, время у людей не безграничное и тратя его на одно мы невольно ограничиваем себя в другом.

Так вот, умный не тот кто ударился в одно направления и знает об этом больше чем все присутствующие, а тот кто знает когда углубления в одном направление начинает вредить другим аспектам жизьни, то есть не запускается.