The Absurdity of Free Will
Twin studies have shown that when given the widest
room to make choices people will
take the road they are genetically inclined to take. It is not freedom of the will
that we want, but, like a windup toy soldier stuck in a corner, we
don't want
our inclinations to be frustrated. The call of liberty is not "freedom!", but
"Do not
frustrate my inclinations...."
The Answer to All
Life's Problems
Every day people are trying to save the
children with their world vision of a better tomorrow. They want to hug a tree and feed a proletarian and
rescue a panda. But with all the wars and injustices and diseases and causes there are to fight you know
you will never succeed. Then there are those you see around you who have no care for any issue, never read the news
and they consider anyone who tries to fix the world just simple fools.
What can you do?
Well, it's simple. Don't have children.
These suffering beings we try to save never needed to exist
and if no one existed all
the problems of the world would cease to exist. Not
as if by magic, or in vain hope, but in reality and forever.
You know there should be
NO BIRTHS when...
When you see all those starving children on those info-mertials
and no one stops to ask why they needed to be born.
ETHICS
Ethics is a subject which is about
what is right and wrong. It is also the prime factor in the
creation of conflict over, what is called, right and wrong, which creates
further 'right' and 'wrong' actions. Often hypocrisy is the only
successful product in ethics.
There is one reason why there is no natural ethic and no
right or wrong: because every act has an infinite number of unknowable consequences which are both
right and wrong, no matter what standard you choose. Choosing a context out of these is only
a self serving and arbitrary exercise.
In addition, any appeal to stand alone virtues
as a standard, irrespective of consequences, is an appeal to blind fantasy and irrelevancy.
However, if only one ethic is to be chosen based on actual consequences
it must be:
It is wrong to reproduce or to give birth to children.
The reasons are simple:
1 - BIRTH IS THE ONLY CAUSE OF DEATH - The only killers this planet has are parents.
Parenthood is the only life action that produces death. A murderer only hastens death
while a parent produces it.
PARENTS CREATE DEATH
It is also the only action that produces suffering.
A torturer only applies the suffering which the parent allowed to
happen. A government torturer working to extract a confession from
a person can refuse to inflict a specific pain. However, that torturer
cannot stop that subject from suffering worse torments in some other fashion. The parent
can stop suffering by not being a parent. If the child is forced to exist, the parent cannot stop all
suffering, so as the parent must accept or ignore that fact on behalf of the preexisting
child, they are then the cause of all suffering.
PARENTS FORCE EXISTENCE
Parents are by definition, and without regard to any subsequent actions,
irrational, selfish and thoughtless. The parents who know they have a genetic disease and then have a baby anyway and who
does carry the disorder are horrible, but no worse than any other parent.
They imagine a kind of slave in their hopes for their child. Imagining oneself as a good parent mitigates nothing.
If a Satanic cult were to council the birth of a
baby for use in an Issac-style sacrifice it would be no different
than what any parent does already.
2-- As a backdrop for number 1, no specific life form has any reason to come into existence
before it is existing, therefore reproduction is pointless to the resultant being. The fact that
this is an old idea and easy to come up with doesn't change anything, except that people have no excuses.
3 -- When there is no existence, there can never be a specific need
for any specific being to come into existence for a resultant parent.
All life forms and individuals fall into that catagory. Mere chance causes
the only requirement for that particular individual life form to come into existence.
4 -- Though chance can make something exist and, so, in that way only, necessitates
existence, it in no way follows that reproduction needs to happen. Chance can be
eliminated in individuals by sterilization. I did this myself and anyone can do it.
Or it can be eliminated through many other options. (Interestingly, the more
economically successful humans become today, the fewer the offspring they tend to have.
Evolutionary theorists claim reproduction is the goal of life and that it is
a sign of success, neither of which they even try to prove.
The opposite could easily be the case, as death and extinction are inevitable, and
so are they are the de facto goals of all life forms.
The notion of evolution is a mistake
though practitioners of the faith are afraid to step away from it. They choose to
manipulate the definition of successful wherever it hurts their belief.)
5 -- There is no sufficient argument to justify the creation of life
considering the following arguments against existence.
a -- While one is existing, a reason to exist must still be
manufactured. That is the essential reason why there must be a game gene
in all life forms. However, even if the manufactured reason is sufficient to cloak
the consciousness of a life form from beginning to end without a moment of dissatisfaction,
there still cannot be a fundamental reason to that existence. Even a god would suffer that problem.
As all actions also suffer from being ethereal, unlimited, pointless and uncontrollable. Even if a god
could know all the consequences of his actions he could not have all the consequences to his liking
because there would be endless numbers of diametrically opposed effects. Therefore no
manufactured reason for existence will ever succeed in the fullness of the time.
b -- Even if the manufactured reason is generally successful by the
manipulation of contexts, there will
always be periods of dissatisfaction within the life form. It is a required factor in the
functioning of the game gene, that games are imagined first and that in the mind they must be risky and
therefore will fail on occasion. That moment of disquiet in the life form is all
that is required to make the existence of that life form not worthwhile. As it is, all life forms
suffer much more than that, only compounding the lack of a reason for existence.
c -- If there is an afterlife that is qualitatively different
from the before-life (the non-being quality which we are all familiar with), then we are faced with
a longer period of time to compound the pointlessness of existence, or what's worse, more time to add tortures.
Anyone who believes in a hell, and has children, is doubly guilty of inflicting torture. As Shake-speare said,
"what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil must give us pause." We
all die and whatever happens afterwards cannot be better than not coming into
existence in the first place.
6 -- The reasons given by human parents for having children are short sighted at best. Parents
often say they feel lonely, or wish to pass on the family name, or say they feel a need to procreate,
or say they want to give that child the wonderful upbringing they had, or say that they forgot to take
the pill that week, or that they need another hand to work the farm, or that they want to please
their own parents, or often they don't even think about it. There has never been a reason to justify
having children which considers the needs of the preexisting child, because there are no needs to
consider, and as there are no needs to consider there will never be a need to exist.
For a full article regarding the counter productive use of ethics go to
Psychology and the Interference of Ethics
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Democracy never flourishes
If someone wants to convince a dictator to start a
democracy all he needs to do is show two things:
how protests and revolutions never succeed under so-called
Western democracies and how the politicians
stay in power as long as any
any overt dictator. Next you advise him how to make it work:
you tell him to
limit the scope of debate to a very
narrow context just by pretending that narrow limit is natural, then you
set up a real competition among allied politicians within that tiny space.
You let this competition be free and fair so everyone gets caught up
in the sport of it all and the whole time you make all the major decisions
behind the scenes. All done - your dictator is turned into a democrat.
Cultural Racism
The essence of racism is the general attack going on today on cultural practices
and despite all the lip service
given to the fight against racism it is a phoney war. Diversity
is not about different food, clothes and cute dances, it is about strange
rituals, or sexual concepts, or the love of war, as a few examples.
The real racist is
the human rights worker who teaches euro-american values, or the
english teacher in Japan. These people, and what is called the typical racist,
work together in an attempt to destroy the common enemy which
is the real differences between people.
Winners and Bastards
The reason everyone loves a winner is the gamegene.
Think of Antony and all the crimes
he committed, especially against Cicero, but he wins
Philippi against Brutus and
suddenly he is loved. The gamegene means that ethics
will always come through the
prism of winners and losers at games. It is also
why being called a loser is the worst thing to
be called.
Loser is also considered by most people morally evil.
You can tell that the gamegene is in effect because someone who
acts like a loser without being one in fact is still made the
loser and is morally condemned.
The Anthropologist's Trap
In the attempt to avoid patronizing and devaluing 'primitive'
cultures anthropologists have turned to their own cultures and virtually
ignored different values and practices. At the same time there has been allowed to
developed a belief in 'universal rights' which has sabotaged the principal
of non interference between countries and fueled a neo-imperial war lead by
westerners of all political persuasions against those cultures too
'primitive' in their cultural practices to warrent respect and understanding.
Anthropologists now cannot study female circumcision as they do male circumcision
because the climate they allowed to develop against 'primitive' cultures means in
order to publish they have to become part of the vanguard for the present war being
waged against the rest of the world for hegemony of 'universal rights', their grand
title for a narrow and provincial set of euro-american practices.
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Paris Hilton talking about friend's, Nicole's, baby, December 3, 2007, "I was just telling
her, 'I want a baby so that our babies can play together.'"
"...for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so..."
Paraphrase on Seneca and Montaigne from Hamlet A2.S2.L259 by Edward de Vere writing under the pen name "Shakespeare"
"Death is the condition of our birth..." Empress Theodora, Roman Empire 532 AD
King Midas to prophet Silenus, "What fate is best for a man?"
Silenus, "The best is unobtainable - not to have been born. The second best is to die early."
"People tire of everything, even of sleep and love, sweet music and the perfect dance..."
Menelaus, The Iliad, B8
"...the charm of folly, which thoughtful Nature has
taken care to bestow on the newly born so that they can offer
some reward of pleasure to mitigate the hard work of bringing them up
and the win the liking of those who look after them." Erasmus, Praise of Folly (22), 1509
"Life sucks. You know that?" Donald Trump, The Apprentice, April 3, 2006
John Daly(golfer), "I don't think I want to be here forever. Life's too tough man."
"...I never asked to be born. " Kelly, Married with Children.
60 minutes, 2006, Morley Safer asks, "Do you regret not having children"
Helen Mirren, "No. Absolutely not. I'm extremely happy. Because I have freedom."
Bird Man of Alcatraz (1962)
Prisoner(dying): What do I have to live for?
Stroud: You just lie quiet.
Prisoner: I'm fed up with this life...I'm sick of it. I hope to god I do die.
I've never had a real good day in all my life. Life! Who needs it?
Stroud: ...How dare you lie there and talk about dying at your age.
Prisoner: Bull! (dies)
Ted Koppel on The Daily Show May 3, 2007,
"Life is a terminal condition...."
Ted Koppel asked Ray, his 92 year old friend, how he was doing.
Ray answered, "You know: circling the drain. Ain't none of us getting out alive.
"You are not dying because you are ill: you are dying because you are alive." Seneca, Epist. moral LXXVIII, 6