We absolutely need copyrights and patents and such.
Think about it. How else would drug manufacturers make people on their death beds pay out their life savings if everyone else could make the same drug?
How would the clearing houses be able to pay authors a tiny sum and sue the small college copy center out of their life savings the moment they copy something they thought was legal to copy?
How would massively wealthy companies be able to buy off and shut down a technology that might be greatly beneficial to society and to the planet?
The rich absolutely need something they can use to beat up the little guy. Think about it. If we had just laws, we would have to stop prostituting justice to the highest bidders, and attorneys would go out of business. What would happen if we stopped shredding the families of little children for profit. Faithful parents could no longer be dragged into court to be terrorized. Attorneys would no longer be able to get rich prolonging injustice, throwing the children into the whorehouses of adultery and divorce while throwing the faithful out of the home and strapping them to death with exorbitant child support payments under the guise of doing it for the best well-being of the children.
No. Rich people need some kind of imaginary honor to hide behind. Tolerance. We need tolerance. We need to tie it together with concepts of racism, bigotry, and make the war between two imaginary entities--the radical left and the fundamentalist right, men against women, elderly against the young, black against white against yellow against red, people with even numbered verses odd numbered freckles, or whatever. And whatever's right has to be firmly tied to what's "wrong" so that to do right, you imagine you have to sacrifice something, even if it's a total lie.
But, if you don't have lies, then you cannot have ill-gotten gain, and today, that is so very unamerican.
No. We have to get rid of God in the classroom, too. See how much better we are now that we've done that? There's nobody to hold us accountable for lying any more. There's no reason for hope in times of darkness, and that helps reduce the population through depression, suicide, drug usage, and alcoholism. It leads to divorce, and that creates a cycle, too. Sexual perversion may be stupid, and people who fight for it may be stupid liars, but hey, it spreads AIDS and sort of makes them all winners in terms of the Darwin Awards. We should celebrate. Yes. Isn't it wonderful? In fact, it even takes the lives of innocent bystanders. Yes. ZPZ. Zero Population Growth. Great for society.
Oh, but we really should take this one step further. Think of how wonderful the world would be if it were perfectly "natural" and "organic" without one human being here to mess it up. Thank God for nukes. One day we'll all be gone, and then the patent offices and the wealthy will have this whole world all to themselves.
Well, I suppose this is all sort of stupid, isn't it. But, every time we push for it, we tell the world it's the American way and we're supporting it.
The next time you pull money our a credit card out of your wallet or purse, ask yourself what it supports and whether you agree with it or not. Then make a deliberate decision rather than doing a knee-jerk grab for your immediate lusts of the flesh. It's amazing what good a change of policy can do. If we all think we can make a difference, we will. If we all lie to ourselves and say we can't, well, our investments will continue to support moral, ethical, religious, social, physical, and natural destruction wherever we go. Poison, or don't. Sometimes it may seem like it only takes a drop of poison to kill a room full of people, and it does. But, sometimes it only takes a drop of antidote to save a room full of people. And that is what we too often miss.
I'm a Christian, but I don't find the depiction of a huge catastrophe which includes churches and statues offensive. What I find offensive is taking God's name in vain or using Jesus' name crassly. And yet this language is habit forming and harder to stop the more we hear it.
When I hear it, it makes me want to ask people, "Who taught you to talk like a whore? Your mother?" If that's offensive to you, don't you consider it offensive to speak of God in such crass terms?
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Poor clearing houses!!!
We absolutely need copyrights and patents and such.
Think about it. How else would drug manufacturers make people on their death beds pay out their life savings if everyone else could make the same drug?
How would the clearing houses be able to pay authors a tiny sum and sue the small college copy center out of their life savings the moment they copy something they thought was legal to copy?
How would massively wealthy companies be able to buy off and shut down a technology that might be greatly beneficial to society and to the planet?
The rich absolutely need something they can use to beat up the little guy. Think about it. If we had just laws, we would have to stop prostituting justice to the highest bidders, and attorneys would go out of business. What would happen if we stopped shredding the families of little children for profit. Faithful parents could no longer be dragged into court to be terrorized. Attorneys would no longer be able to get rich prolonging injustice, throwing the children into the whorehouses of adultery and divorce while throwing the faithful out of the home and strapping them to death with exorbitant child support payments under the guise of doing it for the best well-being of the children.
No. Rich people need some kind of imaginary honor to hide behind. Tolerance. We need tolerance. We need to tie it together with concepts of racism, bigotry, and make the war between two imaginary entities--the radical left and the fundamentalist right, men against women, elderly against the young, black against white against yellow against red, people with even numbered verses odd numbered freckles, or whatever. And whatever's right has to be firmly tied to what's "wrong" so that to do right, you imagine you have to sacrifice something, even if it's a total lie.
But, if you don't have lies, then you cannot have ill-gotten gain, and today, that is so very unamerican.
No. We have to get rid of God in the classroom, too. See how much better we are now that we've done that? There's nobody to hold us accountable for lying any more. There's no reason for hope in times of darkness, and that helps reduce the population through depression, suicide, drug usage, and alcoholism. It leads to divorce, and that creates a cycle, too. Sexual perversion may be stupid, and people who fight for it may be stupid liars, but hey, it spreads AIDS and sort of makes them all winners in terms of the Darwin Awards. We should celebrate. Yes. Isn't it wonderful? In fact, it even takes the lives of innocent bystanders. Yes. ZPZ. Zero Population Growth. Great for society.
Oh, but we really should take this one step further. Think of how wonderful the world would be if it were perfectly "natural" and "organic" without one human being here to mess it up. Thank God for nukes. One day we'll all be gone, and then the patent offices and the wealthy will have this whole world all to themselves.
Well, I suppose this is all sort of stupid, isn't it. But, every time we push for it, we tell the world it's the American way and we're supporting it.
The next time you pull money our a credit card out of your wallet or purse, ask yourself what it supports and whether you agree with it or not. Then make a deliberate decision rather than doing a knee-jerk grab for your immediate lusts of the flesh. It's amazing what good a change of policy can do. If we all think we can make a difference, we will. If we all lie to ourselves and say we can't, well, our investments will continue to support moral, ethical, religious, social, physical, and natural destruction wherever we go. Poison, or don't. Sometimes it may seem like it only takes a drop of poison to kill a room full of people, and it does. But, sometimes it only takes a drop of antidote to save a room full of people. And that is what we too often miss.
Let's not miss it this time.
There's gold in them thar hills
I'm a Christian, but I don't find the depiction of a huge catastrophe which includes churches and statues offensive. What I find offensive is taking God's name in vain or using Jesus' name crassly. And yet this language is habit forming and harder to stop the more we hear it.
When I hear it, it makes me want to ask people, "Who taught you to talk like a whore? Your mother?" If that's offensive to you, don't you consider it offensive to speak of God in such crass terms?