Author: Innomen

Writer. Philosopher. Nerd. If you want to know more, contact me. I don't know where it's getting that photo.

Evolution

You have the right to change your mind.

Genius is a dynamic entity and while some truths once arrived at are final, many aren’t and you’re never going to be absolutely sure which ones are which.

If you find that your view point isn’t changing, (keeping a journal is a great way to watch for this) then you might have a problem.

If you’re not at least a little embarrassed by some of the things you’ve written in the past then you’re probably not growing intellectually.

Don’t be completely ashamed of these things, and don’t be afraid to say you were wrong or you at least feel differently now.

We each make our decisions based on what we know at the time, and a fact of existence is that what you know, changes.

Don’t go back and make corrections, for one thing it’ll just draw attention, simply make your new position clear somewhere else and if asked directly, be honest.

If they want to try and shame you, let them, the both of you know how insane it is to try and scold someone for adapting, and if they don’t, well then their opinion is not worth caring about.

Just sharing 🙂

Death

Death is the enemy. Do you agree? I’ll bet you don’t. As of this writing the people likely to read my work don’t agree. They.. You.. see death as something other than an enemy. Some of you see it as the road to your god and heaven, others see it as a way to escape from one pain or many, still others see death as just a part of life and some of you don’t even think about it at all.

But I’m here to tell you death is the fucking enemy. Death is wrong. Death can be fought and defeated. Death is pointless. Death is not your friend. We must bring about the death of death itself.

Before death can be fought its horror must be apparent. Death’s most powerful weapon is its ability to convince people that it is not the enemy. People lose their only daughter in a violent car crash and they blame the car, and they invent an after life or they start a foundation in her name and death gets a pass.

But in the end death is the problem. Our lives are defined by death in the sense that most of our actions stem from the delay of it’s approach. But that is only true because we come from animals. Animals that have no purposes beyond reproducing. A system of mixing and remixing DNA for the sake and being able to continue mixing and remixing DNA. That is no longer good enough.

Evolution itself has evolved and the door is open for each individual to choose to reproduce in whatever way they like or not, to live forever or not, to finally dispatch death.

I know this is painful to read for those of you who have lost someone or are losing someone. No one likes the thought of being partly responsible for future and present deaths. It’s much better to give up, to consider the matter unavoidable, to hide behind mythology and platitude. To cry yourself out and move on. But our powers are growing and so too does our ethical responsibility.

This does not mean to the state or the god but to all humanity.

It is time to fight. And the first step is failing to surrender.

I chose not to die.

I plan not to die.

My existence matters.

I will not live on through a legacy or though the memory of others or through great deeds or through metaphor or the pleasing of a deity or the cycle of souls and lives.

I will live through action, force of will, technology and study, literally till the end of my universe. I believe this is possible, I know it. And I will do everything I can to make it happen for me and everyone else who wants it with every fiber of my being.

That is my duty to myself my parents my friends and also every life form under my rule.

It is my personal responsibility to see to it that pain is ended, that death is ended that the chains be broken, that life itself be preserved and improved, that sentience be respected, that freedom be preserved, and that I improve myself without fear of losing who I am or losing control of my fate.

The cartoon said it best. Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you.

Death is an opponent we can not truly defeat as we are, though we may indeed wound the hell out of it even now if we tried as a group. But I know better. We will not. I am not here to convince you and start a movement.

You’ve heard the logic before, you can not act. It is outside your nature. I understand and I sympathize.

No, we must become something else, as individuals and as a species. And this change will be snuck upon the most of us. It will be gradual for some, instantaneous for others. It will come from varied directions, from the cell up or machine in. Indeed there may be other paths no living human may be capable of imagining.

If there is something after death, if there are souls on the other side of the veil we can know one of two things. Either they are incapable of helping us, or they are unwilling. That either makes them powerless or compassionless.

If they look and see death as a good thing and they see pain as purposeful, they are not human. They are not our friends and family anymore, and so me must work to preserve and defend our friends and family that stand among us now and see that they stand among us for as long as they wish.

We must see if we can that they are not seduced by lies, but we must temper this with a respect for their authority over themselves.

Pain and death are our enemies. Mortal enemies. Can there be a better term for such a thing?

They must be fought. And they will be. Unto their total annihilation.

The Foods I Miss Most: My mom is better than your mom.

NOODLE CASSEROLE
noodles, 1 bag
frozen broccoli, cooked
10 slices American cheese
can of cream of mushroom or cream of chicken soup
boil noodles til done, about 6 minutes
drain and add cheese, soup and broccoli
stir till cheese is melted and wolf it down

TURKEY LOAF
4 lbs ground turkey
4 shakes seasoned salt
1 onion chopped or 2 tablespoons dehydrated onions
2 eggs (optional)
3 or 4 cups minute rice, uncooked
1 cup ketchup
dump all of this stuff in a big bowl and mix well
put in 2 loaf pans
bake at 375 for 1 & 1/2 hours
the last half hour pour some ketchup on top of loaf

CHEESY RICE
3 cups water
3 cups minute rice
glob of margarine
about 10-12 slices of American cheese
throw all this in a bowl, cover and microwave on high for 12-14
minutes

CHICKEN
chicken breast tenderloins
flour or Bisquick
4 shakes seasoned salt (add to flour)
get chicken wet and dip in flour til covered
fry in hot oil till brown, turn it over as needed

Things every kid should know.

http://www.truthdig.com/images/eartothegrounduploads/Wanted_500.jpg

“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” – Diogenes

  1. Facts and logic determine reality, but emotion determines perception.
  2. Power often defines value.
  3. Influence is power.
  4. No one decides to be mean.
  5. Being older doesn’t mean being smarter.
  6. Respect does not mean obedience.
  7. If someone can tell you what to do with something it’s theirs.
  8. Responsibility is usually code for control.
  9. Those who have more force others to have less.
  10. Angry people are afraid of something.
  11. If someone forces you instead of explains, you’re smarter than they are.
  12. People want you to compete because they are afraid of what you can do when you cooperate.
  13. Everyone gets something out of what they are doing.
  14. No one chooses how smart they are.
  15. No one chooses how they feel.
  16. Almost everything is a matter of opinion.
  17. Smart people can be wrong.
  18. The message is independent of the messenger.
  19. The majority can be wrong.
  20. Reality is not a democracy.
  21. Academic skill does not equal intelligence.
  22. There is a tool or trick to offset every weakness.
  23. Those that tell you loudest to work hard often aren’t working at all.
  24. You don’t have to be part of something to understand something.
  25. You could be the first.
  26. Hurting people doesn’t make you strong or right.
  27. Removing the need for something is the best way to fight it.
  28. Everything you own charges you rent.
  29. Only you know your gender.
  30. Laziness is not a bad thing.
  31. There are always more options.
  32. How you feel and think depend partly on your health.
  33. Your body is your brain’s pet.
  34. You have a limited amount of time, spend it wisely sell it rarely.
  35. People lie because the truth is a threat to them.
  36. No one can tell you what love means.
  37. Revenge is an attempt to control the past.
  38. Context changes meaning, and you can always add context.
  39. Outliving something is better than killing it.
  40. They care enough to tell you they don’t care.
  41. If they tell you they’re laughing, chances are, they aren’t.
  42. The truth doesn’t always look true.
  43. Knowing you could be wrong does not mean you are.
  44. You don’t have to be an expert to be right.
  45. No one owns a fact.
  46. You don’t have to earn the right to live.
  47. Wealth is about luck and ethics.
  48. People who want power shouldn’t get it.
  49. Genius is always outnumbered.
  50. Strangers are more complicated than you think.
  51. Everyone has a reason.
  52. Some people are immune to the truth, sometimes it’s you.
  53. There will always be things you don’t know about yourself.
  54. Not all things are scalable.
  55. Ignorance is not the same as stupidity.
  56. Maturity does not equal conformity.
  57. The really good ideas aren’t always popular.
  58. Writing is nearly immortal and often ignored.
  59. You are always entitled to an explanation that ignores authority.
  60. You do not have to be what your parents intended.
  61. Truly nice people are rarely popular, they tend to hide.
  62. You’re a completely different person after a while.
  63. Poor people exist mainly because rich people sequester wealth.
  64. It’s not holding a grudge if they continuously offend you.
  65. You will outlive all the adults, that means the future is your business.
  66. If they can’t tell you what’s in it for them, it’s a trap.
  67. Evolution doesn’t always improve things.
  68. Common sense isn’t rare, you’re just misunderstanding the actual agenda of the parties involved.

GM Foods: Starvation Is More Toxic

These are the new findings I spoke of, and the type of ideology I’m speaking too/of: http://www.truthout.org/1215091

Monsanto killed my uncle (agent orange) and took my moms career and the sight in one of her eyes(aspartame toxicity). I share that before someone calls me a suit supporter, or a slave brain.

I know about these people, but at the same time I’m still going with Penn ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIvNopv9Pa8 ) on this one, GM food fear is easy when you have food at all.

From any angle GM food being mildly (or even not so mildly) toxic is the least of our concerns as a species. Starvation is 100% toxic. Can the same be said of these foods? By definition, no, obviously.

The good thing about modifying something is you can modify it. Put simply we can fix this, and at this point all these kinds of efforts (the political anti technology anti food movement) serve to do is starve foreign people to death.

That may not mean anything to most Americans but I am not most Americans.

You may disapprove of my calling this movement anti food, but the fact is the planet without total restricting of the biosphere can not cope with our current let alone future population as it stand along side our distribution systems, this means by definition for many millions of people GM food and food are synonymous., thus attacking one is attacking the other.

We’re talking about people hungry enough to literally eat dirt (mud cookies, you probably think I’m kidding) people who’s children die crawling to UN aid stations, people who’s agricultural demands require then to literally blow into cow’s asses so they can fart in their face. (To help the cows digestion, again, not kidding.) My point isn’t to shock you but to make you aware of something, if you are arguing about GM food you don’t even know what hunger is.

So until we get that squared away, the whole feeding everyone food of any kind thing, then we can talk about repairing it, making it safer, and executing Monsanto execs. Until then, be careful about the effect of your goal and unless you are willing to have blood on your hands, unless you are willing to sacrifice strangers for your agenda, openly and honestly (and you may be right, only time will tell) then shut up because this debate is not for the timid hypocrite.