Shoring up the heterosexual hegemony

Voter-ID requirements are the norm in many countries, as Republicans are fond of pointing out. But so are national ID cards. In places such as France and Germany, citizens pick up their identity card when they turn 16 and present it once they’re eligible to vote. Out of nearly 200 countries across the world, at least 170 have some form of national ID or are implementing one, according to the political scientist Magdalena Krajewska.

tHE REFUSAL BY THE US to adopt identity cards for Elections opens it up

to charges of being a third world country

The soul we seek it here, there and everywhere but where is it and seeing the light

Seeing the light

It is late evening in London, I am hurrying home, my step falters because up ahead there is a man well dressed who is

scrabbling in the dirt under a street lamp I have to ask...are you alright? do you need any help? No, no, just looking for my watch, Did you drop it here? No, no, I think back there

if you don't me asking why are you searching for it here?

Because there's some light here/

Right, right, well, good luck.

Is it silly and misleading to speak of the 'SOUL'?

well not if you are referring to a singular purpose of the 'soul' as the constructed model qf a

'self' a coherent agency of singular purpose which we can resort to and which helps us to survive

99% OF ALL SPECIES WHO HAVE EVER LIVED ARE NOW EXTINCT is this part of a HEAVENLY plan?

99% OF ALL SPECIES WHO HAVE EVER LIVED ARE NOW EXTINCT

is this part of a HEAVENLY plan?

Wisdom is KNOWING that you DON'T KNOW

SOCRATES CLAIMED THAT

Wisdom is KNOWING that you DON'T KNOW

The US CONSTTUTION has fossilized into an object of near sacred veneration

Trumps' lack pf support for Ukraine is a long term geo political problem

> are you voting for a further 4 years of quite spooky laughter?

are you voting for a further 4 years of quite spooky laughter? when one listens to this cackle

one feels one is in an insane asylum - and you are

Should Americans be bracing for bloodshed if Donald Trump loses the 2024 presidential election?

Alexander Cohen

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Clarkson Universitya political who studies American politics,

"I can easily imagine a repeat of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection – or worse – following this November’s presidential election." On Jan. 6, 2021, over 2,000 people stormed the United States Capitol to forcibly prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 presidential election.

Four people died and 138 police officers were injured during the riot, which inflicted nearly US$3 million of damage. Four officers who responded to the riot would later kill themselves.

Is the US morphing into Russia

What is one to think? with the endless 'show' trials of Trump, and now another 'dissident' Elon Musk

has a 5 year jail threat hanging over him,

meanwhile the real political US gangsters, pocket Mafia families, stroll merrily on.

iF YOU HAVE NEVER USED THE WORDS 'WORRY' OR 'ANXIETY

STUDIES OF REMOTE TRIBES IN THE aMAZON find that

iF YOU HAVE NEVER USED THE WORDS 'WORRY' OR 'ANXIETY'

OR IF YOU DON'T HAVE A WORD TO CONVEY SUCH EMOTIONS

if YOU DOONT HAVE THE WORDS TO BRING COHERENCE TO YOUR INNER TURBULENCE

An Irish friend of mine wants to talk Politics

He asks '....Why has the term 'far right' morphed into 'freedom fighters'? Is it because 'Far right' was an anodyne political cloak draped over civil unrest, by the 'far left' to neuter and mystify civil unrest....'

Pausing for breath he goes on '...Has the term 'far right' morphed because of the indigenous citizens of (Austria,Germany, Ireland, UK, USA, Scandinavia), are with vigour raising their voices about the threat to their own rights and freedoms?'

'Have to think about what you said...would you like a cup of tea?'

Mastering the language of emotions requires three key skills

PERCEPTION

UNDERSTANDING

and REGULATION OF EMOTIONS

How we come to be riding our mental consciousness as if on a bike

your perception is not random bu organised in a huge amount of brain activity

which happens beneath the radar of our consciousness.

throughout our lives our brains undergo more changes than any other part of our bodies

through out our lives our BRAINS undergo changes more than any other part of our bodies

The point where the BRAIN will will no longer accommodate DISTRACTIONS

Once the BRAIN REACHES the limit of its sensory processing It will no longer accommodate

DISTRACTIONS

When asked how he would design the universe

A different, complementary, more existential side of Hawking comes alive in an interview conducted shortly after the release of A Brief History of Time and found in the out-of-print treasure Origins: The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists (public library) — the 1990 collection of interviews by Alan Lightman and Roberta Brawer, exploring “the ways in which personal, philosophical, and social factors enter the scientific process,” which also gave us pioneering astronomer Vera Rubin on women in science, dark matter, and our never-ending quest to know the universe.

When asked how he would design the universe if he could design it any way he wanted, Hawking, beloved for his dry humor, answers

Turning over the question of meaning to Nobel-winning physicist Steven Weinberg’s famous assertion that “the more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless,” Hawking offers a laconic yet spirited counterpoint:

What is the most powerful driving force in the USA?

Violence

Vladimar Putin and how he terrorises the children of this world

Will there be a Nuclear War sir? Is the anxious question asked by school children of the Western world and no doubt Soviet world as well as 'Mad Vlad' carries on with his insane threats

If only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words

Matter is made of atoms

If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms—little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence, you will see, there is an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied.

When the mind is at sea the word God is a life raft

Those innocents who dabble in the occult with Ghosts as their God

this desperate processes has a degree of intellectual revulsion

dabbling with the occult is capricious and has a degree of insatiable perfectionism - when the mind is at sea

the word God is a life raft

If you're being manipulated by someone...

If you're being manipulated by someone, they're trying to control how you act and take away your ability to think for yourself. This tactic can affect not only your relationship with them, but your relationships with others and your mental health. To deal with a manipulative person, it's crucial to set firm boundaries and stick to them.

Our Galaxy Might Not Be Doomed After All

Scientists say there’s a 50/50 chance that our Milky Way galaxy will collide with the Andromeda galaxy.

tHE CAT IS NOT IN THE ROOM any more- but it smile or grin is still here

Cats are very clearly crucial to the very fabric of our reality. In 1935, Austrian physicist Edwin Schrödinger demonstrated the idea of quantum superposition using the analogy of a cat that’s both dead and alive—at least, until it’s measured. However, the famous experiment known as Schrödinger’s cat isn’t the only feline-themed property of quantum mechanics.

Meet the Cheshire cat paradox.

Named after the troublesome cat in Alice in Wonderland who’s known for his disturbing smile and frequent disappearing acts, the Cheshire cat paradox pertains to the strange (and controversial) quantum quirk that properties of a subatomic particle (in this case, a neutron) can be separated from the particle’s mass—similar to how the Cheshire cat disappears and leaves only its unsettling grin behind.

the tiny blue dot that we live in

Underscoring our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another

Carl Sagan said it best, reflecting on the significance of a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from about 6 billion kilometers away. Our planet appeared in the photograph as a tiny distant pale blue pixel against a reflected band of sunlight. The picture famously became known as the Pale Blue Dot. Here's Sagan:

Source: Wikimedia Commons

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives . . . . Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light . . . . There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

References

What was the purpose of God creating us?

There are two extremes known as creationism vs evolutionism. Let's consider creationism for a moment, and imagine that God exists, and he/she has created us. The question that obsesses my mind after that is simply, why? What was the purpose of God creating us?

the history of the Universe/s = galaxies formed some 10 billion years ago

A team of international researchers including those at The University of Manchester and University of Victoria in Canada, used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that galaxies like the Milky Way are 10 times more common than what was believed based on previous observations with the Hubble Space Telescope.

Many of these galaxies formed some 10 billion years ago or longer, going far back into the history of the universe.

no one trusts the news now

Americans in general have begun to catch on: 66 percent of Americans believe that the media has a hard time separating fact from opinion and, according to a recent Gallup poll, 62 percent of the country believes that the press is biased one way or the other in their reporting.

So when CNN, NBC News, Fox News, or another outlet break a hard news story, there is a good chance that a large swathe of the public won’t view it as legitimate news.

We shouldn't retreat from the accomplishment -of not being religious

As science and religion began to go their separate ways—a process that accelerated with the work of Darwin—science became secular.

“The elimination of God-talk from scientific discourse,” writes historian Jon Roberts, “constitutes the defining feature of modern science.” Weinberg would have agreed.

As he told an audience in 1999: “One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from that accomplishment.”

“It’s amazing, isn’t it?

l. “It’s amazing, isn’t it?” noted physicist says. “You think the particle has a spin and the spin should stay with the particle. But the spin crosses the box without the particle

ThOSE NAME SHAMING THE ; 'HARD RIGHT' ARE THE ONES INTENT ON CREATING A REACTIONARY HARD LEFT

wHEN YOU MAKE A MORAL EVALUATION

moral evaluation cannot proceed until all the relevant facts and relations are already known. At that point, there is nothing further for reason to do; therefore moral evaluation is not the work of reason alone but of another faculty. He bolsters this line of argument by expanding his Treatise analogy between moral and aesthetic judgment, arguing that just as our appreciation of beauty awaits full information about the object but requires the further contribution of taste, so in moral evaluation our assessment of merit or villainy awaits full knowledge of the person and situation but requires the further contribution of approbation or disapprobation. He also offers the argument that since the chain of reasons why one acts must finally stop at something that is “desirable on its own account… because of its immediate accord or agreement with sentiment… the famous argument that reason cannot produce motives but morals can,

pRIDE IN ONE'S SELF IS OK ....BUT NOT IF IT DEVELOPS INTO CONCEIT

A person who displays excessive pride irritates others because, while others come to feel this person’s pleasant sentiment of pride (to some degree) via sympathy, they also feel a greater uneasiness as a result of comparing that great pride (in whose objects they do not believe) with their own lesser pride in themselves; this is why conceit is a vice.

the incurable human attraction to the proximal good

in spite of the incurable human attraction to the proximal good even when smaller than a remote good, because this predilection only takes effect when the lesser good is immediately at hand. When considering two future goods, people always prefer the greater, and make decisions accordingly

What is corruption in a Politician

What is corruption? We define corruption as the abuse of entrusted power for private gain. Now who would that description fit in the current US Democratic party?

We spend our lives protecting an elusive self , thoughts, in reality, think up the self

We spend our lives protecting an elusive self - but does the self actually exist? Drawing on literature from Western philosophy, neuroscience and Buddhism (interpreted), the author argues that there is no self. The self - as unified owner and thinker of thoughts - is an illusion created by two tiers. A tier of naturally unified consciousness (notably absent in standard bundle-theory accounts) merges with a tier of desire-driven thoughts and emotions to yield the impression of a self. So while the self, if real, would think up the thoughts, the thoughts, in reality, think up the self

I don't know what is going on - but it has to stop

Such impatient outbursts betray a refusal to uderstand o engage withthe complexity of the situatilon, preferring to beleive there thers is manical devilsh chARCATER OCHES