Archive for January, 2008

31
Jan

understanding god’s plausability quotient

By Alex Cameron 0 Comments
Categories: Christianity, Jedi Skills, Life and Wisdom

I offered to scientifically present the case for the existence of God to my favourite heathens who couldn’t recall to me the most basic of scientific facts. But in simple layman’s terms, because otherwise we would be in a haze of long words and bizarre abstract meaningless terms that would land us firmly in New Age territory. It won’t be long-winded or hard to understand. I’ll put the arguments here so anyone can get them.

My issue when “attacking” the beliefs of others is about having a faith that has foundation and credibility, rather than one of whimsical fancy. The Father i know gave us intelligence and the abilities of consciousness so that we use them extensively, and requires us to use them, so we are wise enough to know to put them down.

As fun as it may be to systematically dismantle silly New Agers, the serious point behind it all is that all spirituality requires a leap of faith. But the critical issue is WHEN you take that leap of faith and that is what i mean by “legitimate” and “authentic” spirituality. For example, Stella and i are at opposite ends of the spectrum. I start with what we know to be true, and work towards what is unproven. Stel on the other hand, starts with what is unknown and works her way back to truth. I believe you must do all you can to base your faith on substance. And once that is exhausted, then take the leap of faith. Most religions encourage you to just believe straight away without questioning.

This point of view that belief must be justified with basis is a founding principle of epistemology, and there are, generally speaking, 2 forms of belief – a) a posterior (based on deduction), and b) a priori (based on self-evidence or introspection).

Peter (my coach) explained an interesting observation to me about when he was doing his time in academia. Scientists and mathematicians are often opposed in their spiritual beliefs when you would expect them to be aligned. You would assume that because of the absolute nature of maths that they would be the atheists and that because of their fascination with nature that the scientists would be theists. But the opposite tends to be true – most scientists are atheist as they see the potential for life on other worlds (e.g. our concept of God is man-created and flawed), but the mathematicians do the sums and are mainly theists.

The point here is to argue that A monotheistic God, Supreme Being, Higher Power or Creator exists, NOT a specific God of a specific religion (we’ll deal with later). This is not an article on the Christian God, but just of any God being there at all. Please don’t email me about your problems with the Bible or the Church. This could be Allah, Krishna, Yahweh or the Flying Spaghetti monster. It is NOT an argument for “God-energy”, aliens, the “spirit world” or polytheistic structures of multiple gods. In fact, these theories specifically refute those concepts.

Every single argument made here is through inductive reasoning and has a counter-argument. I am only presenting the case, not objectively analysing it. You should do that for yourself as all these have been debated for millennia, and typified recently in Richard Dawkins’ excellent book “The God Delusion“. There are many arguments against the existence of God, and then counter-arguments again by proponents. It goes on and on. It is your responsibility to look over these and decide for yourself rather than just accept what is written here. Knowledge without wisdom is dangerous, and as the Japanese say, it’s also a bit like stacking books onto a donkey.

Although Einstein rejected the idea of a personal God, but crucially also rejected the idea of a non-created universe. A belief in creation does not mean you reject scientific understanding of evolution - quite the opposite, in fact. His wisdom was as extraordinary as his scientific brilliance:

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

We cannot physically bottle God up in a test tube and experiment on him in a laboratory (neither can we bottle up justice, compassion or jealousy), but what we can do is argue the probability that a God exists. Science is based on our understanding of the universe and nature through the scientific method. A true scientist knows that nothing can be 100% proven, even the simplest theory. The nearest you can get is 99.9% that the results of the experiment were true at the time it was conducted.

When i use the word “probability”, i mean the vernacular of the word, not the literal mathematical study. It is better understood by saying the “likelihood” or “plausibility” of a Creator existing. If a Creator exists, then he/she/it is supernatural, and not subject to the natural laws that science is based on. We can observe His effects and use logic and reason to suggest His existence, but He will exist outside science .By nature he can work inside of creation but also outside it if necessary. If a God exists, He created evolution and natural selection – arguments based on asserting that we mistake God for the process of natural selection are moot. My argument is that this is not special pleading as it is explicitly stated from the outset rather than a response to a counter-argument.

We must be very careful to understand that things happening by chance are not the same as evolution or the process of natural selection. Science does not often assert things happen by chance, but that they can occur through natural selection even despite being highly improbable.

I will make what may seem to an academic as a possibly unstable absolute premise - that:

a) A Creator either exists, or
b) he/she/it does not exist.

That is based on the layman’s argument and everyday understanding rather than mathematics because the debate on a street level is what is meaningful to the ordinary person.

Straight away, we believe that the likelihood of God existing is 50/50, or 50%. Then we must decide on when our % will be high enough for us to believe in God’s existence, and how we increment that percentage with each point made. Yes, yes i know about the flawed probability maths here, so let us keep it simplistic and philosophical.

For atheists, that belief score will need to be 100% (even though they can happily believe in compassion and justice despite the proof factor not being even above 40%). For the ordinary person it will be around 80%, but of course it is entirely subjective. I would suggest that if the likelihood that God exists is higher than 80%, then it makes sense to believe in His existence. We must then decide how much of a % gap there is that faith needs to fill. That is, of course, if you are happy to accept that having a gap for faith doesn’t mean that belief is to do with a “God of the gaps”.

1. The universe could not exist unless it was caused
Whatever begins to exist has a cause. The universe (and time) began to exist. Therefore, the universe had a cause, and that cause was God. God as an entity is the absolute finite being and was not created by a cause. The scientific establishment accepts the Big Bang theory as its primary hypothesis. This is known as the Cosmological Argument and relates to the 1st Law of Thermodynamics.

2. The beauty and complexity of the universe implies it was designed
The universe is too complex, orderly, adaptive, fine-tuned, apparently purposeful, or beautiful to have occurred randomly or accidentally. Therefore, the universe must have been created by a sentient, intelligent, wise, or purposeful being. God is that sentient, intelligent, wise, or purposeful being. What constitutes poor design in our scientific opinion is part of the design itself. Complexity indicates intelligence and order, which implies mastery of design. This is known as the Teleological Argument or Watchmaker argument.

3. If we can conceive of God, then he must exist
God is, by definition, a being greater than anything that can be imagined. Existence in both reality and imagination is greater than existence solely in one’s imagination. Therefore, God must exist in reality; if God did not, then God would not be a being greater than anything that can be imagined. You can’t touch love, but you know it exists. This is known as the Ontological Argument.

4. The capacity of our environment to produce life is too coincidental
The science of our planet is precisely what you need to be capable of producing life. Existence defies entropy because life on this planet is more and more ordered, so violating the 2nd Law of thermodynamics (entropy). This is known as the Anthropic Principle.

5. Right/wrong and good/evil are universal
Well-functioning human beings are typically intuitively aware of actions as being right and wrong. Moral facts exist. Moral facts are transcendental in nature. The best explanation of there being transcendental moral facts is provided by the existence of a Higher Power. If evil exists, then so must God. This is known as the Moral Argument.

6. The things we experience are pointless without a belief in God
Logic, science, ethics (and generally every fact of human experience and knowledge) are not meaningful apart from a preconditioning belief in the existence of God. God is the only thing that makes sense of everything and no other substantial theory for existence has the same weight or plausability. This is known as the Transcendental Argument and is a negative proof assertion.

7. Our separateness from other animals implies creation
Our consciousness, fear of death, spirituality (evidenced by burial) and the separation of mind and body (Plato’s mind/body dichotomy problem) show us to be a somewhat “unnaturally” large step from our evolutionary cousins, despite sharing 95% of our genetics with them. These are highly unusual but meaningful characteristics/by-products derived from the process of natural selection.

8. Divine revelation impossibly illustrates today’s science
Of all the “holy books” the Bible is the only book that correctly describes the order of creation as revealed through science. It would have been impossible to know this information and record it on carbon-dated scripture thousands of years ago without divine insight from the Creator himself. Thousands of correct descriptions of advanced scientific principles.recorded thousands of years ago are found all throughout the bible.

9. The world’s greatest scientists, thinkers and natural geniuses have supported belief in God
Nicholas Copernicus, Sir Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Rene Descartes, Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, Michael Faraday, Gregor Mendel, William Thomson Kelvin, Max Planck, Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, C.S. Lewis, Martin Luther King, Blaise Pascal, Louis Pasteur and more. It’s safe to assume they had thought it through.

10. Personal testimony and experience.
Human beings have been relating their personal experiences of a God for thousands of years since we began to inhabit the planet. The longevity of our belief in a God, the fact it appears to be a natural impulse and the sheer number of people who believe the same implies the existence of God has substance. We know man is a spiritual creature (and always has been) as the earliest evidence suggests we buried our dead in the Neanderthal age. Religious behaviour is found in almost all human populations on earth.

“The most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion on an intelligent and powerful Being.”

Issac Newton, “Principia”

And of course, rebuttals to traditional objections and arguments against the existence of God, or the general principles of apologetics (theodicies):

  • Who created God?
    No-one, nothing. God is the answer to infinite regression because as the “uncaused cause” he is the absolute finite entity and is not subject to natural scientific laws or time itself.
  • Man created God
    Man has created Gods, but they all follow the same pattern of being permissive and non-judgemental. Monotheism asserts an image of God that is unusually challenging and different to humanity.
  • If there is a God, he should not permit, and/or should prevent evil
    Without evil, there is no such thing as free choice or free will because we do not have the ability to choose between one or the other. With the exception of natural disaster, evil is mostly a consequence of another human being’s choice.
  • Natural selection explains creation
    The creator designed and created natural selection itself as the mechanism for the process of life.
  • If God existed, he’d have done a better job of gathering believers
    Persuasion or intervention would violate the principle of true freedom of choice. Faith requires the basis of free will.
  • God and/or theistic principles are illogical, paradoxical or fallacious
    We cannot hope to understand or reason the nature of God with our primitive consciousness and/or intellectual abilities. We work within the limits and reference of our own limited scientific understanding. God is supernatural and can defy our norms and structures.
  • Some natural design is poor
    In our humble opinion. God is an artist as well as an engineer, and biological design cannot be judged alone on efficiency and neatness. Chaos exists in limited circumstances and is part of the design.
  • Personal testimony and crowd wisdom is unreliable
    Just people lots of people believe it does not mean it is true, however the consistency of accounts en masse (via the scientific method) and reflected benevolence in the lives of those with religious beliefs suggest substance for the existence of God.

I believe in God, and always have. I don’t say that flippantly, and i’m not intimidated by the debate. My faith is built upon evidence, reasoning and understanding that gives me the platform i need to take the leap of faith to believe in God and reach out to know more. People ask me to prove God exists and I tell them that i see Him everywhere – photosynthesis, DNA, the Golden Ratio, stellar constellations, the feminine heart, the diversity of colour, and shape in nature, courage/compassion, the genius of evolution, the imagination of children and so many other places. I am lucky enough to have direct personal experience of the God i call my Father which in my own mind is entirely conclusive and unquestionable. As such, i have a bias.

I know the arguments presented here have many deviations, counter-claims and are not debated in full objectively. But that is not the point of the article. I’m more than willing to get into the spiralling minutiae elsewhere if necessary. All that matter is we think, rather than just neglect to be bothered and ignore our spirituality because it is the only thing that means anything in this life and transcends our personal lives to become part of our relationships, communities, cultures and history.

“Come now, and let us reason together,” says the Lord”

Isaiah 1:18

30
Jan

when love hits like a bomb

By Alex Cameron 0 Comments
Categories: Jedi Skills, Misc, Romance and Wisdom

Kelly’s written a very cool set of blogs in the last few days that have some incredible wisdom in them, as well as a great example of how to get it together when nothing feels like it’s together at all.

Looks like the present went down well too:

This was by far the most imaginative and well thought out present I have ever had. I was really suprised by the amount of time and effort that went into putting it together and taking the time to find out exactly what I liked. I just smiled like a little kid as I put together the little codes.

Thank you for making my birthday so special x

Have a read of them here:

http://cherry.freeblogit.com/

P.S. Looks like we can now finally sue the fuck out of any sexual predator who’s stolen the lives of others now. I for one will be more then happy to put a tonne of money behind the cases of people i know. Viva la total eradication.

P.P.S. Yes, i know i’ve been slack. Putting the God proof one on later today.

27
Jan

universal laws for being a man

By Alex Cameron 0 Comments
Categories: Life, Misc, Rants and Wisdom

1. No wasted beer in the name of humor.

2. It has been made official that under no circumstances should the male have to pay for birth control

3. If your best friend is dumped by a girl it is a 6 month waiting period till she can be touched. If he breaks up with her it’s a 6 day waiting period.

4. If two or more males arrived at a party by a single car, and the driving male is hooking up with a girl, it is the responsibility of the other males to find other ways home.
(The exception to this law is if the driver is hooking up with his own girlfriend, the law is then void and the driver still holds full responsibility of driving his friend’s home)

5. Short shorts have been banned… Unless in a participating in a sporting event that demands shorter shorts. Also no real man should be allowed to pop his collar.

6. Every man shall allow one empty urinal of separation in a bathroom with three or more urinals; law is void if there are dividers in between each urinal.

7. If a girl and a guy are not officially dating then it can’t be considered cheating. However…if the guy cheats with a girl that is less attractive to the one he is originally interested in then he is either… A) Drunk or B) Dumbass. This then gives the original girl the right to either get mad or laugh at you.

8. No one should ever steal a man’s alcohol from that man’s cooler…this is the only law that suffers the penalty of death.

9. When bringing condoms to a party it is a man’s responsibility to pack two in his pockets and one in his car as a spare incase a friend is in desperate need.

10. No heavy fornication in a friend’s bed. Or just wash the sheets.

11. No man shall every use a rolling backpack. If you can’t carry the bag then you’re not a man.

12. If another man’s fly is down, you didn’t see anything and may not make a comment about it.

13. When a man is borrowing a buddies tool or other equipment, if the borrower puts any scratches or brings it back with any noticeable wear, then he is required to do one of the following: If the item costs under 50 bucks, you are required to replace it. If the item costs over 50 bucks, you are required to give him a case of beer, because hey…who wants to spend more than 50 bucks on something that isn’t yours.

14. When your friend picks up a hot girl…however the hot girl has an ugly friend…it is only right that you operate as a wing man doing whatever it is you got to do to help your buddy have some time alone with the hot girl. As men we are obligated to sacrifice and pay it forward for each other knowing that the favor will one day be replayed.

15. When calling shotgun, all riders of the car must be outside, and shotgun can only be called when the car is in view. Riders in the car are not allowed to run to shotgun and steal it before the person who called and deserves it arrives there. The driver of the car has no authority to decide on who gets shotgun. If a legitimate confrontation comes up where the rightful owner of the shotgun can not be determined then it will be decided by one round of paper rock scissors (with no shoot). If the two contenders tie 5 times in a row then the rightful owner of the shotgun is to be decided by a UFC cage match in which the first blood drawn decides the rightful owner of shotgun.

Addendum to Man Law No. 15:
If at any point during the process of determining the shotgun rider a hot girl hints that she would like to sit up front the driver has the sole right to declare her the shotgun rider and depending upon the situation may even deny rides to all other passengers. However, if said hot girl is an ex of any passenger they may overrule the driver’s decision and make her ride in the back. Additionally, if all passengers happen to be female then revert back to original method of deciding shotgun rider substituting mud wrestling for UFC cage match. The winner then gets either a cold water hose down or shotgun the next ride unless the car is really shitty and the owner doesn’t care about muddy seats.

16. It is PAPER, ROCK, and SCISSORS with no shoot. If you must say shoot, it has to be agreed upon by both men and a witness has to be present and somewhat sober.

17. When toasting with beers you clank with the bottom.

18. You poke it you own it.

19. The head nod is an acceptable way to greet another guy when simply walking past. No words are needed to be said. An upward nod is for friends, a downward nod is for fellow men.

20. If a man is on vacation to a state that does not border his own, or any other country, it is not considered cheating if he so chooses to engage in sexual activity with a girl other than his girlfriend. Although he should be fully aware that his girlfriend may not see eye to eye if she was to ever find out.

21. A man should not masturbate more than 3 times in a day to insure being ready for any unknown or known late night action. Assisting Girls does not count… rule is in exception if male party is in a bet to set a record of number of times in a day.

22. A man shall never wear any article of women’s clothing (I.E … Girls Jeans/Pants!) unless they are the loser of such a bet… or if a man is figuratively in a girls pants… (Or any other article of clothing).

23. No man in any circumstance, unless mocking a violator of this law, should pop his collar.

24. A man should never be denied the right to adjust himself or place his hands down his pants under any circumstances.

25. Being a Pirate should be considered a Manly job because pirates get two types of booty.

26. All men must eat meat. A shitload of meat. If not borderline carnivore. For no reason should a man ever be a vegetarian, or eat sick shit like tofu. Also no man should consume any food with the terms “diet”, “fat free”, or any other healthy suggesting terms for the sake of “watching his weight” or dieting.

27. Every man is required to learn some form of Poker before he dies.

28. If a man ever does something wrong a simple “OOPS”, “My Bad”, or any variations of cuss words that get the point across will suffice, no need to say “I’m Sorry”

29. No man should ever hook up with his best friend’s girl, no matter how hot she is. This is in effect while they are dating or “together.” If they are separated refer to Law 3 for the proper way to handle the situation. (Side Advice: Less guilt is involved if she comes on to you.

30. under no circumstance should any one man cockblock another mans attempt at getting some tang. Let’s just leave that up to the tangs fat friend. Please note that cockblocking will result in a suspension of your Man status and its privileges, and will result in the title Manbitch.

31. Every man should watch sports center at least once a day, though multiple viewings are recommended so that one can hold his own in any debate on sports that may arise that day.

32. Under no circumstances shall any man lay a hand on a female or a child in violence. Spanking of a woman’s ass or pulling of the hair is permitted if done on request. Corporal punishment is permitted excluding obvious extremes. Punishment for the attacking male is that if other men see the assault taking place they having the right to take him out back behind a building and show him how to fight with real men. In this situation more than one man may be used in the attacking of said woman beater because he clearly doesn’t mind an unfair fight seeing as he was hitting a lady or a child to begin with. A call to the police is a very last resort and should only be used is said male is over 6′ 5″ 250lb. or an ufc cage fighter. A kick to the crotch is only called for in cases of rape. If it is merely a guy beating a woman, defenseless child, or elderly people then a legitimate beating is called for, but no shots to the crotch. If it is a case of rape however, multiple shots to the crotch are called for. The punishment must fit the crime and since rape is using that area of the body, it is ok to inflict damage to it (Cameron Ross, Nick Polyzos, Kristina Brockmann, and Drew Westerfield).

33. If a woman is present whether family or friend no man under any circumstances shall make their own food or pour their own drinks unless it is a special holiday such as, Mother’s day, Birthday’s, or St. Patrick’s day or if the woman cannot keep up with the pace you want your drink poured. Law is void if significant grilling is involved.

34. No man shall ever watch a soap opera ever! Period! If this law is broken, it will result in the lowering of status from man to Manbitch and the questioning of the liking of opposite gendered relationships.

35. Women can’t drive.

36. In the court of Man Law the statement “I was Drunk” will have the same effect as an insanity plea (reduced punishment) in standard court provided the defendant’s blood alcohol level exceeds .10.

37. If any male is caught violating a Man Law in serious context, as a form of punishment he should be disowned of his manly name, only to receive the title of “Manbitch” from his peers and colleagues. Forgiveness is pending the severity of the broken law…or a case of beer to all his offended peers as a token of respect to what is manly…and what is not.

38. Any man that is old enough and is not in the army should at least support the troops, even if you don’t agree with the war they are your country men fighting to protect you and you should show them your support

39. No more crushing of empty beer cans or your forehead. Modern, thinner cans make the feat less impressive than with cans of years past.

40. If you take beer to a party the tuck rule is in play when leaving, you may take one beer max, but only if the beer will fit in your pocket.

41. Do not have a conversation at a urinal.

42. A man will not live in his parent’s house past the age of 27 unless they are ill or he is in the war.

43. All men have the right to remain silent when asked by a woman “do you like this”. And the right to leave the room.

44. Sex is more important then talking

45. No man under any circumstance shall use lip balm.

46. Grilling regardless of weather is always the first choice for cooking.

47. No man shall ever own a dog smaller then a housecat

48. Men will invite other men to Man Law

49. No man shall ever turn down free beer because “it’s not their brand.”

50. No man shall be shamed if they are passed out with their shoes off in your place. If the person passes out outside of the house, then they are fair game shoes or not.

51. It is acceptable for a man to publicly situate and/or scratch himself in the region of the gonads. If at a formal conference, then do so discretely. If at a football party, scratch away, just no handshakes.

52. The morning after, if a beer has been left on the table, no matter the temperature, it is acceptable to consume this item with food, such as its counterpart, cold pizza.

53. If you spill a man’s beer, you buy the next round/refill the cup.

54. Nursing a beer is unacceptable. The bottle/can/cup should never reach lukewarm temperature with beer still in it. If you can’t drink it in said time, don’t open it. If you cant drink it in said time, your man status will be up for review.

55. Always accept beer from a stranger, but only if unopened/capped.

56. It is never a man’s responsibility to empty the trash while drinking. Beer cans may be staked or crushed while the bottles may be thrown into neighbor’s lawn.

57. A man does not have to like another man to drink his beer. Beer is beer.

58. It is acceptable for a man to break man laws, if no other option is humanly possible, in the pursuit of the opposite sex. His actions will be given leeway.

59. The bachelor’s party is exclusively male. (except the entertainment).

60. No man may ever sell a beer to a friend. It’s understood that said friend will repay beer with beer later. Under no circumstance may the replacement beer be of a lesser quality.

61. A man purse is still a purse. (David Emadi)

62. No man shall dance for fun unless it’s to increase his chances with a member of the opposite sex.

63. Body paint is only acceptable on a man if it’s on game day and to support his team.

64. No man shall bring a woman to the guy’s night out. this is punishable by verbal abuse for life.

65. If you do not sweat, it’s not a sport. (People sweat during Beer Pong.)

66. If a large snake catches a man off guard and bites, said man is allowed to scream once.

67. No man shall wear a beret unless it’s for his military service.

68. When lifting weights, it is acceptable for a man to wear compression shorts under the regular shorts. No man shall ever wear compression shorts alone.

69. No man shall ever, under and circumstance, share an umbrella with another man.

70. No two men are allowed to enter a revolving door together. Unless it involves a race were the winner receives a combination of the following: beer, food, sex.

71. The girl who replies to the question “What do you want for Christmas?” with “If you loved me, you’d know what I want” gets an Xbox. End of story.

72. Keeping beer from other’s by hiding it in the fridge is not permissible. Besides, sharing is caring.

73. Wives and girlfriends may not store items other than beer in the garage fridge. It is for beer only.

74. A man may publicly rebuke another man only if the first man has the man law and number memorized. Otherwise the rebuke must be in private. Furthermore, any man who has the man laws memorized will be deemed a “higher” man.

75. In no situation is it acceptable to sit cross-kneed. You either sit with feet-crossed, no cross, or stand.

76. Men are allowed to lick the plate when done but only when alone or with other men.

77. A man should be able to determine a diesel engine by sound alone.

78. While smiling, no man shall stick his tongue between his teeth.

79. It should be understood that while, yes, cheerleading is not a sport, and it is perfectly accepted to watch.

80. If a man is punched, and the hit is rubbed, he is punched again in the same area twice.

81. A man should be able to lucidly explain the rules of one or more of the following sports: Football (not the European kind), Baseball, Lacrosse, or Ice Hockey.

82. The dressing of any pet for any reason is not acceptable…any garment that is not a part of the animal shall not be allowed to be attached to that animal…exceptions are collars, leashes, etc. exception to this rule are monkeys.

83. Under no circumstances shall any man drink wine cooler…ever…unless beer or liquor is completely unattainable. This includes anything (non liquor) fruit flavored that comes in a bottle.

84. Under no circumstances shall a man ever defer control of the television remote to a female.

85. There are three reasons for which a man is allowed to cry.
1. He is hit in the genitals with anything traveling over 10mph.
2. Your date is using her teeth.
3. Anna Kournikova gets married.

86. When watching a “catfight” it is perfectly acceptable to choose sides. It is also perfectly acceptable to pray for rippage of clothing.

87. When in a public shower, no man will look below the shoulders. Also, no eye-to-eye contact for more than one second is allowed. If eye contact occurs, nod upwards, and look away.

88. No man under any circumstances should have to explain the use of a power tool to another man.

89. Never should man give a woman the credit card. No exceptions.

90. No man should talk on a telephone to a girl longer than he will have sex with her.

91. Every man should smoke at least one premium cigar in his life. Not any swisher sweet crap either. Cohiba, Monte Cristo, CAO (Cade Mayo).

92. No man shall ever read an instruction manual. If the man does not know how to use the item trial and error shall be used until the correct function is determined (Eric Gartenberg).

93. No man shall be held accountable for any promise he makes while drunk unless it was a bet. (Boots Jones)

94. When questioned by a friend’s girlfriend, you need not and should not provide any information as to his whereabouts. You are even permitted to deny his very existence.

95. Unless he murdered someone in your immediate family, you must bail a friend out of jail within 24 hours.

96. A best man’s toast may not include any of the following phrases, “down in Tijuana”, “one time when we were all piss drunk”, or “and this girl had the biggest rack you ever saw”.

97. You may exaggerate any anecdote told to your friends by 50% without recrimination, beyond that anyone within earshot is allowed to yell out “bullshit!” (exception: when trying to pick up a girl, the allowable exaggeration is 400%)

98. The minimum amount of time you have to wait for another man is 5 minutes. The maximum is 6 minutes. For a girl, you are required to wait 10 minutes for every point of hotness she scores on the classic 1-10 scale.

99. Bitching about the brand of free beverages in your buddy’s refrigerator is forbidden. But gripe at will if the temperature is not suitable.

100. A friend must be permitted to borrow anything you own - grill, car, firstborn child - within 12 hr notice. Women or anything considered “lucky” are not applicable in this case.

101. Falling on a grenade for a buddy (agreeing to distract the skanky friend of the hot babe he’s trying to score) is your legal duty. But should you get carried away with your good deed and end up getting on the beast, your pal is forbidden to ever speak of it.

102. Women who claim they “love to watch sports” must be treated as spies until they demonstrate knowledge of the game and the ability to pick a Buffalo wing clean.

103. No man shall ever be required to buy a birthday present for another man. (in fact, even remembering your best friend’s birthday is optional)

104. You must offer heartfelt condolences over the death of a girlfriend’s cat, even if it was you who secretly set it on fire and threw it into a ceiling fan.

105. When stumbling upon other guys watching a sporting event, you may always ask the score of the game in progress, but you may never ask whose playing. You should know such things.

106. If your girlfriend asks to set your friend up with her ugly, whiny, loser friend of hers, you must grant permission, but only if you have ample time to warn your friend to prepare his excuse about joining the priesthood.

107. When picking players for sports teams it is permissible to skip over your buddy in favor of better athletes- as long as you don’t let him be the last sorry son of a bitch standing on the sideline.

108. Never join your girlfriend in ragging on a buddy of yours… unless she is withholding sex, pending your response.

109. You can not rat out a friend who show’s up to work or class with a massive hangover, however you may: hide the aspirin, smear his chair with limburger cheese, turn the brightness on his computer way down so he thinks its broken, or have him paged every seven minutes.

110. The morning after you and a babe, who was formerly “just a friend”, go at it, the fact that you’re feeling weird and guilty is no reason not to jump on her again before there is a discussion about what a big mistake it was.

111. Everybody is Irish on St. Patricks Day. And as such said people must consume alcohol on St. Patricks Day. Green and/ or gold body paint may be worn, but no glitter.

112.When passing another man in a tight area were contact is possible, hole to hole or pole to pole is only acceptable. If it is pole to pole no eye contact should be made. If any detour from this is spotted by any onlooking men, possible labels such as “Fag” may be deamed necessary. Resulting immediate demotion in man status. (Cody Miller)

24
Jan

how we got where we are today

By Alex Cameron 0 Comments
Categories: Black Arts, Christianity, Jedi Skills, Life and Wisdom

So i have been challenged to demonstrate the existence of God in simple terms using science, reason and logic, and i relish the idea. It needs to come in 2 parts - our understanding of our existence, and then the argument.

By the way, the answer to “where do you find the time?”, is rather simple. I work 20hrs out of the 24, 7 days a week, and not just 8hrs from 9 to 5. I also work smarter and in a more fragmented and productive style with always 5 projects on the go simultaneously. No, i am no genius. I just have to keep my brain whirring round or i go fucking mad. In my mind, i’m underperforming right now. I need to do more.

Right, so here we are. Concentrate. This is my summary. Let’s start with what we know as our base foundation.

We know that the universe is around 13.7 billion years old and at least 93 billion light years across. It may be part of the multiverse, is constant evolving (expanding faster and faster), and was first modelled by the ancient Greeks. We believe it to work within, and around, scientific natural laws.

The universe is made up of 73% dark energy, 23% cold dark matter and 4% ordinary matter. Billions of clumps and superstructures of galaxies are spread isotropically, with each being formed from billions of stars and formations of solid matter (planets). Our galaxy is known as the Milky Way and is 100,000 light years in diameter, about 1,000 light years thick and contains possibly up to 400 billion stars. The oldest star in the Milky Way is believed to be 13.2BN years old, nearly the same age as the universe itself.

We understand the basic building block of all matter to be the atom, which consists of a of a dense nucleus of positively charged protons and electrically neutral neutrons, surrounded by a much larger electron cloud consisting of negatively charged electrons. Both protons and neutrons are composed of elementary sub-atomic particles called quarks. The quark is a type of fermion, and the electron a type of lepton. Atoms/elements join together and form molecules and compounds in different combinations that make up physical matter. Any mass has an associated energy and vice versa, and measured/compared to the speed of light.

Our solar system is a region of that galaxy composing 8 major planets, 3 dwarf planets and 166 moons that gravitationally orbit the sun, and its creation is believed to be explained through the nebular hypothesis.

The sun is a medium-size magnetically-active yellow dwarf star that is 4.57 billion years old and half-way through its lifecycle (10 billion years total). It supports all life and activity in the solar system as we know it, but in 900 million years, it will produce too much heat to sustain life on Earth despite decreasing its luminosity by 10%. In about 5.6 billion years, it will become a red giant (as it does not have enough energy to become a supernova), then become a planetary nebula, and finally slow and cool to fade away as a white dwarf over billions of years.

According to geology, the Earth is 4.6 billion years old, is the only planet in our solar system able to sustain life and was formed out of the remains of the solar nebula (the sun’s formation). The sun’s energy is shielded by the ozone layer, and plant photosynthesis (around 3 billion years old) captures the sun’s energy and provides the chemical processes that support life. Only 1/8th of the planet’s land surface is suitable for humans to live on with 75% covered by ocean.

Life is believed to have originated on earth through the process of abiogenesis around 4.4 billion years ago through a molecule that became able to replicate itself and the liquification of water. Up to 100 million species evolved through the process of natural selection and adaptation, all built from the basic blocks of up to 100 trillion single cells that hold genetic structure information encoded as chromosomes formed from DNA. Fungi and plants colonised the earth 700m years ago, with the first animals leaving the oceans for land around 450 million years ago. The first animals of the homo genus arrived 2M years ago.

We are a species of higher ape mammal called Homo Sapiens that emerged 200,000 years ago in the African Savannah, took 6.5 million years to evolve and first showed signs of spirituality in the Neanderthal age by burying the dead. Scientists estimate the current human population was formed through a common base originating gene pool of 1,000 breeding pairs. Our genome consists of 24 distinct chromosomeswith a total of approximately 3 billion DNA base pairs containing an estimated 20,000–25,000 genes. Our closest genetic relative by common descent (95% identical DNA sequence) is the chimpanzee and we are separated from other animals through a highly developed brain capable of abstract reasoning, language, emotion, culture and introspection (counsciousness), and an erect body carriage that frees our upper limbs for the purpose of making complex tools.

8000 years ago in the Middle East we began practising agriculture, formed our first known recognised civilisation 4000 years later and our first religion (Hinduism) 1000 years after that. The first proto-states, government and military (Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus Valley) developed around 6000 years ago, and the first recorded empires (Persia, China, and Rome) 3000 years ago. The world we know today was brought about the scientific and industrial revolutions, and we currently live in an age of globalisation.and interconnected telecommunication.

The Homo genus is the only genus to exhibit religious behaviour, and religion is a cultural universal found in all human populations that is believe to be tied to the development of language. The earliest religions of the Paleolithic and Neolithic ages consisted of beliefs in multiple gods (polytheism), ancestor worship and shamanism. The arrival of the Iron Age changed our focus to belief in ons God (monotheism) and the first religious texts were created around 4000 years ago after writing was invented. Judaism followed Hinduism around 1500 BC, followed by Buddhism/Taoism/Confucianism around 500BC, Christianity at 33 AD and Islam at 570 AD. First we worshipped our ancestors and things, then the stars, planets and multiple gods, then a single god, and now we worship ourselves.

So to sum it up, the earth is 4 and a half billion years old, and we turned up 100,000 years ago. All life on the planet will die out in 900 million years. Our existence is very unique, and we have managed to virtually destroy the place in just a few thousand years.

P.S. Dan would like to add, “but where do the true origins of freaky sex lie?”. I have no fucking idea, Dan.

22
Jan

a touch of the master’s hand

By Alex Cameron 0 Comments
Categories: Christianity, Life, Misc and Wisdom

Twas battered and scarred, and the auctioneer
thought it scarcely worth his while
To waste much time on the old violin,
But held it up with a smile.

“What am I bidden, good folks,” he cried,
“Who’ll start the bidding for me?
A dollar, a dollar, then, two! Only two?
Two dollars, and who’ll make it three?
Three dollars, once; three dollars, twice;
Going for three . . .”

But no,
From the room, far back, a grey-haired man
Came forward and picked up the bow;
Then, wiping the dust from the old violin,
And tightening the loose strings,
He played a melody pure and sweet
As a caroling angel sings.

The music ceased, and the auctioneer,
With a voice that was quiet and low, said:
“What am I bid for the old violin?”
And he held it up with the bow.

“A thousand dollars, and who’ll make it two?
“Two thousand! And who’ll make it three?
“Three thousand, once; three thousand, twice;
And going and gone.“said he.

The people cheered, but some of them cried,
“We do not quite understand, what changed its worth?”
Swift came the reply:
“The Touch Of The Master’s Hand.”

And many a man with life out of tune,
And battered and scarred with sin,
Is auctioned cheap to the thoughtless crowd,
Much like the old violin.

A ‘mess of potage,’ a glass of wine;
A game - and he travels on.
He is ‘going’ once, and ‘going’ twice,
He’s ‘going’ and almost ‘gone’.

But the Master comes and the foolish crowd
Never can quite understand
The worth of a soul and the change that’s wrought
By the touch of the Master’s Hand.

“The Touch Of The Master’s Hand” by Myra Welch

21
Jan

suck less at phototardshop

By Alex Cameron 0 Comments
Categories: Business, Life and Misc

Donnie Hoyle’s amusing “You Suck At Photoshop” tutorials are a fascinating example of using humour to help learning, and for making it an enjoyable experience rather than something to grit your teeth through. A very different and irreverent take, and strangely inspiring too.

Covering Your Mistakes

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Clone Stamp & Manual Cloning

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20
Jan

must read: the new age of stupidity

By Alex Cameron 3 Comments
Categories: Black Arts, Christianity, Jedi Skills, Life, Misc, Rants and Wisdom

My latest “crusade” (as Jen puts it) has been about New Age beliefs. I don’t disguise my contempt for this “spiritual” movement and i had too much to say to put in a blog.

Over a week i spoke with 24 people over the phone, email and Facebook to a) ascertain their beliefs, b) examine their attitudes, and c) scrutinise the basis of their “faith”. One of these conversations was publicly featured here, and also on the Textual Ecstasy forums.

What i found disturned me deeply as even some of the most intelligent and sound-minded friends of mine seem to lose all sense of reason and have such a worrying ignorance of basic science when it comes to matters of spirituality.

I don’t see why i have to be tolerant as i don’t subscribe to a belief system that requires it. I have plenty of time for Buddhism, Islam and other faiths, but what i don’t have time for is ignorance and stupidity.

The paper discusses:

  • How the New Age “belief” system is vacuous and collapses under the slightest scrutiny;
  • That ancient “knowledge” and “wisdom” is nothing but ancient ignorance of 21st century science;
  • The gross misappropriation of scientific principles such as Mass-Energy Equivalence, Chaos Theory, String Theory and Quantum Mechanics;
  • How the meaningless language, obscurantism and vague terminology misleads the gullible;
  • That the principles of Relativism are fundamentally flawed and meaningless;
  • That the arguments used as a basis for New Age belief are laughable;
  • How mysticism is driven by rebellion against the Church and patriachal culture;
  • Blatant fraudulence, silliness and outright quackery that isn’t mysterious at all.

Topics, concepts and practices featured include:

Alchemy, Angels, Astral projection, Astrology, Auras, Automatic writing, Biorhythms, Chakras, Channeling, Chaos magic, Charismatics, Clairvoyance, Color Therapy, Crystals, Divination, Dowsing, Dreaming, Extra-sensory perception, Faith Healing, Feng Shui, Homeopathy,, I-Ching, Kabbalah, Levitation, Magick, Mediumship, Necromancy, Neo-paganism, Nostradamus, Numerology, Oracles, Ouija, Palmistry, Past life regression, Psychic phenomenon, Psychokinesis, Psychometry, Reiki, Reincarnation, Remote viewing, Scientology, Shamanism, Sorcery, Spirit Guides, Synchronicity, Tarot, Telepathy, Wicca.

You can download the paper as a PDF here:
http://www.azcameron.co.uk/The.New.Age.Of.Stupidity-Alex.Cameron.pdf (270Kb)

The material itself is released under the Creative Commons License, so you are free to distribute as widely as you as long as i am given attribution as the author.

And of course, the obligatory soundtrack, “People Of The Sun“, by Rage Against The Machine:
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19
Jan

when both cultures are ignorant

By Alex Cameron 0 Comments
Categories: Jedi Skills, Life and Wisdom

50 years ago CP Snow wrote a famous essay called “The Two Cultures“ that described the growing divide between the arts and thr world of science, and how the breakdown in relations and communication was a major hindrance to solving the world’s problems.

The Observer asked a panel of celebrities the most basic of questions about how our world works whilst giving Natalie Angier’s new book (”The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science“) a plug, and as you can imagine, the results were very revealing.

“A good many times,’ he suggested, ‘I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice, I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold; it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is the scientific equivalent of: have you ever read a work of Shakespeare’s?’

Q: Why does salt dissolve in water?
Q: Roughly how old is the earth?
Q: What happens when you turn on a light?
Q: Is a clone the same as a twin?
Q: Why is the sky blue?
Q: What is the Second Law of Thermodynamics?

“The New Age Of Ignorance” - The Observer
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2115519,00.html

18
Jan

come join the new age mystic debate

By Alex Cameron 0 Comments
Categories: Jedi Skills, Life, Misc, Rants and Wisdom

So 5 or so of us have been having a discussion privately on Facebook about what constitutes the so-called “New Age” belief system. I’m looking down to pin down the key principles of these beliefs and ascertain their validity, if at all possible. I’ve spoken to 19 people so far, so the odds are about 20:1 (not sure in whose favour). I’m still trying to work out how alchemy goes from being an ignorant medieval chemistry practice to a personality concept. That and how there are witches that practice “fairy healing”.

By “New Age”, i mean comprising the general beliefs that underpin Astrology, Wicca, Paganism, Gnosticism, Spiritualism, Divination (Tarot, Dowsing etc), Mediumship, Necromancy, Magic, Alchemy etc. Broad as in “energy”, “forces”, “spirits” etc.

Here is the conversation so far in full:
http://www.azcameron.co.uk/new.age.rubbish.html

It’s now been opened up for everyone on the Textual Ecstasy forum, so have a read and join us for some spirited debate. Spread it around and invite anyone you know who can tell us what the fairies at the bottom of the garden look like and what E=MC2 means.

http://textualecstasy.com/index.php?option=com_fireboard&&catid=25…..;id=604

Naturally when i study something, you can assume there is some kind of article or report that always comes afterwards. I think you’ll find it very interesting reading.

17
Jan

oh weak and frightened generation

By Alex Cameron 0 Comments
Categories: Life, Rants and Wisdom

As i’ve been researching New Age beliefs and practices, it’s becoming slowly more and more apparent to me how utterly pathetic and weak my generation is. Granted, that particular group of “true believers” is a pisspoor and extreme example, but it’s symptomatic of a greater malaise. They are the thin end of a very large and wussy wedge. It’s a strangely right-wing and authoritarian digression for me, but i’m growing frustrated with “sheeple” and complacent, consumerist weaklings mentally wetting their pants around me when they need to be a bit more discriminating.

Discriminating and discerning (NB: not against race/colour/gender etc, but in the broader sense of being discerning) was what a gentleman used to spend his whole life aiming to be many years ago, but our limp-wristed wet-blanket generation is offended by that and called it bad.

Our generation have never been to war on mass conscription, or been threatened with an invasion. We never see death, because it is always ferried away in an ambulance. We have never been ruled by a tyrant dictator or been overtly oppressed. We allow other faiths and cultures that are minority groups to overrule the democratic majority. We have never suffered famine, economic and/or natural disaster devastation on a macro scale. We have running water, clothing and basic healthcare unlike most of the world.

We are statistically an obese nation obsessed with beauty and living vicariously through celebrities. They choose political and spiritual systems that are hopelessly idealistic and flawed. They have no direction, appreciation or strength of will. Most of our children won’t and don’t read. They bully other children for being different, teachers are attacked in schools and everyone thinks they’re special. The divorce rate has run at a mean average of over 50% for years, and arranged marriages last longer because we discard our vows and do as we wish.

When it comes to conflict, we run away from it and try to please and appease the other party. If someone is attacking someone else, we just stand by and watch, not wanting to get involved. We sit on the fence instead of choosing a side. Laws have been passed about “inciting hatred” because we are scared of standing up to and ridiculing the views of extremists. There is a health and safety sticker on almost everything, and we’re shocked when soldiers die in a theatre of military action.

If people ask me about the God of my religion being a ferocious and deadly warlord, and that i love it and celebrate it, they are appalled and don’t want that kind of behaviour in a God. Who on earth taught you a) that God is a cutesy teddy bear, and b) that you can’t be both loving and bloodstained? Where on earth did you get this fantastical idea that all is beauty and happiness? Mills & Boon? The Beano? CBeebies?

Ask our generation what they believe, and if they even have a clue they evade the question by saying “i think everyone should be allowed to believe what they want to.” Roll over, little spaniel.

Well fuckheads allow me to explain that, because you need to wake up and be slightly more realistic. We have enemies. Our walls need to be defended by men with guns who kill and destroy if necessary. There are a lot of people out there who don’t like us, and lose no sleep about the idea of hurting you, me, us and our children. Those enemies are military, economic and ideological. This is the same reason why socially equal political systems like Marxism, Communism and Socialism don’t work in practice despite sounding like good ideas, and capitalism does. Capitalism fits perfectly with human nature whilst allowing expansion and contraction, creating a sustainable balance that unfortunately is almost always tipped to the rich in favour of the poor.

If you listened to the anti-conflict feminine claptrap you’d take back from it that we should be nice, understanding and tolerant towards anyone and everyone under all circumstances. We are to react to aggression with appeasement, rudeness with indifference and exploitation with lenience. Just watch what happens when a girl decides to tell another girl to leave her man alone, or when she is spiteful, as you’ll see a woman’s war instinct underneath that too. All of this is under the cowardly banner of “rising above” these nasty people and pretending it didn’t matter. How about dealing with them right and there by showing them without words? I don’t see why we have to discuss in words what we can show as truth with actions.

Fuck that. I want to invade, conquer and destroy whoever offends or threaten either me or the ones i love. I’m not apologising for that, and i personally think appeasement is a tool of the weak – the “tremblers”. Yes, it may also have been a strategic choice in WWII etc, but i’m talking about people/enemy-pleasing here. You don’t have to do it, just shut the fuck up if i decide to and have to make up the numbers because of your weakness.

Ok so the argument then slides to the idea that you can be ruthless when threatened but only selectively, and not all the time. Why the fuck not? If they have resources, let’s take them for ourselves. They’d do it to us in a heartbeat, so like all animals we can entertain the idea of being opportunistic. I don’t see why i have to make anyone feel better, or spare them suffering if they’re wrong or foolish. Maybe that pain is useful and ultimately in their good. The message needs to be clear, and that is that fucking with us is not a good idea or in your interests. As we stand now, we might as well hand out free lube.

All of this is naivety on a grandiose and worrying scale. I listen to airy-fairy idealists prancing around and protesting about war and why we can’t all just be happy and live in a dream-like world of peace and acceptance.

2 words – human nature. In case you missed the last 3000 years, this is our natural state of being.

Without conflict, darkness and the contrast of our nobility you would be bored shitless. Fighting is our way, not peace, and always has been through our existence. Women are understandably peacemakers, but they are kept safe and protected by the strength of ferocious men. You don’t get to demand security and protection in one breadth and whinge about keeping the peace in another. Hence why a lot of women really need to be told to shut the fuck up occasionally. I’ll provide and keep you and the children safe, and you tell me how the relationship is going and how much of a bitch your sister/friend/ex/cousin is.

Human nature means there will always be others out there who won’t play by the rules or be nice, even if we do ourselves. No amount of protesting and/or idealism is going to change it. The only reason you say otherwise is that you have little life experience, or have reacted to bad experience by losing all sense of reason as extreme avoidance of what hurt you before.

Women are raped en masse in Sudan. Child soldiers are made to kill their parents in Uganda. Iran still condones execution by stoning. America consumes more of the planet’s resources than any other country. Political leaders are assassinated in Pakistan. Men fly planes into skyscrapers in New York. Russian spies are murdered in London. Arab states openly call for the destruction of Israel whilst Palestinians suffer from a lack of basic sanitation. Muslims are slaughtered in the street in Bosnia. China executes children by shooting them in the head in public, and Saudi Arabia cuts off the hands off thieves and forces women to burn alive because they are not covered up when leaving burning buildings.

There have been 5 genocides in the last 15 years.

And these are just a tiny percentage of what has gone on in the last decade or so. You do not live in a cutesy world, and the only reason you have your woolly peace beliefs is because the liberty you study them in was bought in the blood of the generations who died before you to secure it for you. To put it bluntly, you are a selfish and spoilt little twat who hasn’t got the faintest idea of how to stand up and be counted if you were told you needed to.

These people and things exist, right now. We have no control over what others want to do and actually try to do to us. Get this point round your naive and idealistic head. Human beings lie. They steal. They exploit. They kill. Yes, they are capable of good too, but in equal measure to what is dark.

We are threatened and live in a very nasty world:

WHETHER.WE.LIKE.IT.OR.NOT.

If anyone disputes that, ask them to state the % of the world’s countries and peoples that in a state of war at this precise moment - the active proportion of human beings involved in large-scale conflict instead of sitting around meditating. Someone must defend us from those things and be vigilant to protect who and what we are, what we own and our interests. It doesn’t matter what beliefs we subscribe to or how much we want peace and happiness. Those enemies come for us when we are weak, unguarded and slow. Our generation’s cowardice and woolly idealism is putting us all at risk, and our children’s.

We have got so used to losing that we’ve forgotten the idea is to win. We have our self-esteem and self-worth problems, our vanity disorders, our confusions and all the other personal cowardice that seems like the world. Our ambitionless children can barely think critically and we teach them to accept almost anything about it. The purpose is to win. To push, to drive, to fight, to survive, to conquer. It is not to sit around working out the best way to avoid the fight. That is fucking pathetic and it’s about time someone said so.

We’re afraid to tell people we’re right and they’re wrong. We don’t think we have the right to claim to be right. When did we give it up and make an agreement to sit back and say/do nothing under all circumstances? As i don’t subscribe to a belief system that requires me to respect and/or accept your beliefs, and also to restrain from telling you that you are wrong, i am free to do it. If you subscribe to a belief system that requires you to respect and accept others’ beliefs, then shut the fuck up.

What we need is strength. Strength of will, and strength of character. We are fat and complacent, and ripe for a corporate takeover as we stand now. Breaking news, but it is our agenda to promote our views, values and principles because they are true and right. We know they are true and right because we have studied them and scrutinised them heavily. This world belongs to the strong. The strong always win and always survive and the weak fall by the side of the road – not the nice and nasty, the weak and the strong. Right now we are steadily sliding into being a generation of weedy apologists with a sign above our heads saying “violate us as much as you want”.

I’m not up for being violated, and i’m not up for doing nothing. I want war, and for the world to be scared of what we are and what we represent. I want those i love safe and protected. If you offend us, steal from us or harm one of us, you will pay for it 10 times over in blood, fire and anguish. If you harm a little one or betray, you will be treated even worse. Clear direction, clear leadership and a vision for s to be the greatest and most influential generation of its kind. We will not get that from being weedy, woolly and half-witted.

Nobody’s asking you to step forward and do it yourself. The request is simple.

When someone does, stop fucking whingeing, moralising and coming out with appeasement bullshit. Get behind it, walk in behind them and get ready to draw blood.

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