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Why the U.S.A. Is (Still) Humanity Best Chance

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It is rather common to talk dirty about the U.S. these day, in fact, it been a fashion for a while now, something like 5-6 years at least. At first it was mainly president Bush that was getting all the heat (and to be honest, and see what is going on today, you can not feel bad that he got such a bad response) after that it became the whole country. Today a large number of Americans feel bad about the country they live in, which is a great shame.

The U.S.A. is still the beacon of hope, freedom and liberty in this world, the principles its founding fathers have so ingeniously put together still hold true and its passion for the freedom of speech makes it the great country it is, this freedom had spread to other places in the world inspired by the American revolution, but I can think of no place that still holds the same respect to the main principles of governance.

There are many things wrong with the U.S. today, and it needs a whole lot of fixing, but make no mistake, the freedoms that the American people enjoy and the banal things they can do and practice daily will have other people killed in other countries. The American people should understand that its founding fathers were not terrorists trying to murder the British, but real freedom warriors, who had no other place ot go but their homes and their lands, the British had their own homes and lands – and it was not in America. The British did not negotiate terms of freedom with the American population, it forced it to pay for its occupation, let us not forget this.

The founding fathers knew all about oppression and all about the misery of not being free because they experienced it first hand, in a way that no one really knows today.

So here is for the U.S.A. and lets hope it will restore its old glory.

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Why #May27 Really Matters

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The social media servers are standing ready for tomorrow, as many of freedom lovers around the world. Tomorrow we might see the rebirth of the Egyptian revolution, and with it a renewed sense of dignity and respect for the people who wanted freedom and will not stop until they get it.

See, changing the name of a dictator or tyrant is not that difficult, once you place the old one in jail or hang him or her it is really only a question of time for the next in line to jump in and assume the position, robbing and locking people as they go. This pattern is so imprinted into the Arab Muslim society that it almost seemed like its going to be the same here, but for some reason it is not. The people of Egypt feel that they have done all of that work for nothing, and now they are getting something that is more of the same, or even worst – a paved road leading to the first extreme official Muslim brotherhood branch government.

So check out the social media pages, and do whatever you can to let people know that the people of Egypt want real freedom, that the women of Egypt want respect and change, that the atheists that started this revolution want to be a part of the new Egypt, and not to be locked or murdered, forgotten and abandoned.

From here the only thing I can wish the people of Egypt is that they will win this revolution, that things will really change, the religious fear mongering will not win the day and that they will join us in our call to move humanity forward to progress and leave religion behind us.

Thou Shall Have Free Speech!

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“…and on the first minute of the first hour of the first day, god created free speech and made man so he could think and express his thoughts freely, without fear of injury or assault, for his words are an expression of his mind, and if found offensive to the ears of the listener that listener could then reply and reject the thoughts of the free speaker, as well as just walk away from there”

Now the fact that its in quotation does not mean I found it anywhere, but isn’t it bluntly obvious that if anyone created human beings and their minds that this creator would like those little people to speak their mind and not keep it locked inside for fear of danger?

Almost all religions want to limit free speech, now we got governments joining in with great enthusiasm to tax the internet and to limit its users on the content they create and the thoughts that they describe. So now that all the proper authorities are aligned with creating things to tax, like the carbon tax and soon to come the internet taxation free speech will be limited and controlled, and of course will increase the ever growing flow of money to the governments and will continue naturally to the banks so they can cover the loses they take for managing working people money.

If a roman citizen from 100BC would have moved in to contemporary 2011 U.S. or Europe he would be amazed at the taxes people have ideas for, but he will also be amazed at how, without the clear show of aggression and brutality, people in power silence anyone who does not keep quite and speaks his or her mind, now that’s progress. Let us imagine a visit to London of 2950 in the future, where people are taxed for touching flowers and trees, because of the potential harm it might cause the plant in the process of photosynthesis, visits to governmental (or bank) owned lands in the countryside will be taxed for use of higher quality air and the global leader (world government, not easy to forget that one) can increase taxation on warmer or cooler regions of the planet.

And no one shall speak against it, for it is not only a sin to doubt the global leader but to raise suspicion and fear in the minds of the subdued and obedient citizens of the world.

Reject religions and anyone who tells you that you can not or should not challenge anything, doubt everything and be skeptic of anyone, do not conform to the moral standards of (the not-so-pious)  religious leaders. If you really love whatever it was that made you, the first thing you can do is to speak your mind and use your mouth.

God Loves You (Not You, You!)

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The idea that you can be special without doing anything special, without any effort or thought, just by being, is one we have to credit religions with. After all it is the Jewish faith that explicitly tells Jewish believers that they are the “chosen people” and that god has a special relationship with them, this has spread more in the last couple of years and being used by religious Jews on non religious ones to try and get them closer to this organized religion. It is not surprising that these religious Jews use things like “you are the son/daughter of god/the king” or “we are the people of the book” to put non religious people to shame, to try and morally oppress people who do not register the faith and to make them think that they should act or be diferent because god has special plans for them.

And this includes everyone, that is the beauty of it, Jewish murderers, rapists, thieves and lie tellers are all included in this pact, it is a categorically choice of god and no one can be excluded from it, if you are Jewish you are a part of the chosen people and you should act like one. What that actually means I have no idea, but rest assure that the behavior that is expected of Jews by Jewish religious leaders changes from one branch of this faith to the other, from Ashkenazim to Sapharadic (Jews from Western Europe and from Africa and Arabia) and from one political party to the other.

Same with Islam, only not as explicit as in the Jewish example, Islam does not tell his believers that they are chosen, or that they have a special relationship from birth with the almighty, mainly because Islam is a religion that is propagated and spread, so telling people that only if they were born Muslim they have this bond with god would not help much – new people will not join for fear of being excluded on this one, so Islam simply tells its followers that they are the best of all people.

It is important to note that Islam does refer to the Jews as the chosen people from time to time (only to be followed by a “kill them all” notion in later episodes) but there is no doubt that Islam – to the Muslim – is much better than being Jewish, because Muslims are told that they are the best people on earth, and that there is no one better.

And once again this is applied on everyone, the killers and the terrorists, the child molesters and the rapists… only that in Islam law you need to adjust your dictionary and learn that a rape (for example) is not really a rape if it one on one, it needs to have a few participants in it, you will also learn that a Muslim is allowed to lie freely in certain situations, and that stealing is really a question of how what and when.

So the Jews are the chosen people, and Muslim are the best of people, god loves them both and somehow you are supposed to make an educated conclusion and join only one of the religions, I am confused. Christians make it much easier, Jesus loves you, he died on the cross for your sins, even though you were born 2,000 after his death, so that shows you how much he loves you, now you only need to walk around with that guilt for the rest of your life.