Parenting and the Relation Between Faith and Dictatoroship

The simple relationship is that submission is the means by which both dictatorship and faith use to reach their objectives.
However, there is also the more subtle relationship in which I will discuss below.

Faith effectively tells its subjects what to do, thereby devaluing any attempt for reason and discussion. In contrast, not only do science and philosophy not tell you what to do - as we are the ones burdened with solving the problems - they also value any system which helps in the never-ending endeavor to find truth.

Human beings can either be taught to be told what to do or they can be taught to find out for themselves. This differentiates what I call 'dictatorial parenting' (A) from 'responsible parenting' (B) where the dictatorial parent is one who tells the child what to do without explanation and the responsible parent is one who lays out the choices for the child and helps when differentiating between the reasonable choices from the non-reasonable ones.

Children who grow up within household A are much more likely to give into ideologies involving slave mentalities such as religion or fascism. These are ideologies which tell the subject what to do through a method such as faith or something very much like faith, such as nationalism. Philosophers and scientists may have grown in these types of households but there is no doubt that they have received some responsible parenting, whether or not the actions had been produced by the actual parent. Much the same, non-philosophers may be produced from household B as well. Also, for example, scientific fascists and religious anarchists are created in such mixed environments.

The solution is then not a positive obligation on humanity to educate. It is not a positive obligation on responsible parenting. It is not resorting to violence (public school). Really, there is no obligation! Human beings are creatures that have adapted so that they could advance and evolve their minds, so this change will happen naturally. In fact, it is education itself that teaches submission. Public schools tell there students to submit to the state while religious ones tell them to submit to god - and this is exactly why there should be no positive obligation on humanity to teach because that would just mean public education, producing exactly what we had set out to destroy.

Its great to be optimistic but the chances of us evolving out of this stage before we kill ourselves, or rather when those within household A destroy themselves and those of household B, are diminishing. The struggle for the survival of humanity has always been the struggle between these two households, the household of faith and the household of reason.

Socialist Dictatorships

The socialist is he who wishes for everybody, usually through force, to share their property. The socialist dictator is he who wishes everyone but himself to share. Everybody, since they want to be exempt from having to share their own property, wants to be the socialist dictator. The socialist dictator must therefor use violence or pay people to use violence, by making lords, military generals and/or religious leaders, to protect himself from the masses. When paid off, these 'subjects' will have no desire for rebellion, but will even endorse the socialist dictator.

Indirect Religious Dictatorships

The creation of the religion of Islam is one of the most genius ideologies for the cause of dictatorship. The Islamic emperor is god, and the kings are the prophets. Not only did these self proclaimed prophets make their families wealthier, they also made the families of their friends, whether they are religious or not, considerably wealthier and more powerful as well. It is a dictatorship that gives breed to smaller dictatorships, as kings will always have disputes amongst each other and there really is no emperor to solve anything. Culture in the middle east has been formed under this dictatorial rule.

Catholicism-styled dictatorship, on the other hand, gave the pope the power of the emperor. This made the land even more centralized, making the land both harder to control and more profitable. Those who were able to harvest the fruits of their labour received their rewards.

palestine is not a country... according to whom?

The other day in my developing areas class, a student got laughed at for thinking that Palestine is a country. So i thought to myself, who decides? Other countries.
Lets take a look at Kosovo, although claiming to be a country for years, it was not accepted until England and the United States said it was. Russia and Serbia, of course, do not recognize them to be a country. Ultimately, the country(s) with the most power decide when a country is actually a country. In the case of Kosovo, Russia is not as powerful as the west... so I guess it is a country. On the other hand, Palestine, since it too is not as powerful as the west, is not a country.

On another note, I wonder if the United States would still be backing Israel if, lets say, Israel was a muslim nation and Palestine a christian one.

States do not care if you freeze to death.

After converting from ally to enemy... or commi to capitalist, Ukraine cannot handle reasonable market prices of gas... and neither country cares about the consequences. States acting from utilitarianism? Yeah right. Even states act from self-interest.

Cloning and Free Will

Whatever happens to/in the real world, human beings try to adapt to the environment. Even simple changes, such as different seasons and weather conditions, have been adapted to. Consciousness is adaptation from a subconscious choice to a conscious one...

...this is why Hitler, if 'cloned' will not be the same Hitler as we have come to know him in history... he could, in fact, do a number of other things... including cure cancer.

"We do NOT negotiate with terrorists... but pirates are a different story"

I love it. The first "stateless society" and the first thing it does is steal from government. Of course, (you would know this after watching Lord of War) very few people report on the governmental backing of the arms business. What a surprise, now their own arms are being used against them. What are they going to do next? Raise the funding for protection, great.

On another note, I love the concept of Newsvine... but its users are 'state sucklers'.

Here it is:
http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/08/2287448-us-to-head-anti-pirate-patrols-off-somalia

Israeli Holocaust?

The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is now rejecting Israel's claim that its troops were returning fire from militants in the school's yard.

"We are 99.9 per cent certain that there were no militants, no militant activity in the school building or in the compound," UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness said.

"If anyone has any information that contradicts that could they please come forward? Can their information please be part of an impartial investigation?"

From:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/01/08/2461421.htm

The spokesman seems to be telling the truth, until you watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDmLrOUKnpE&feature=channel_page

I wonder if Hezbollah, now that they are supposedly 'stronger than ever,' will ever have the, shall we say, cohonez to attack Israel?

Mainly because of the numbing effects of news, the death hardly bothers me. Rather ironically, what does bother me is the lack of coverage its been getting and whatever news that has managed to make it through is more or less unclear.

Sophisticated BBC Radio Commercials

something like.. "find out why bankers gambled with our money"
the answer is in the question, it wasn't their money.

Absolute Power

if everybody wants to reach absolute power
and absolute power is the use of force
then, everybody would want to be able to use this force.

absolute force is always resisted, but it does not matter how many resist.

governments have always been made to represent a true monopoly of power, such that there is no competition. However, in reality, although governments may hold the majority of violence, they do not actually hold any monopoly.