To be honest I have no clue what is going on with those statistics. I'm actually sick to death of public opinion. Peoples opinions stink and what goes through their minds is enough to make you want to throw up sometimes.
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Thats my opinion, and I know it stinks.
Is that what's making me throw up all the time? I thought it was GERD.
Actually, your opinion made me laugh a bit.
A good laugh as in lauging with me?
Or a bad laugh as in laughing at me?
Difficult to tell online
I think being a hermit with a bunch of books and a cat makes a lot of sense. Try reading The Dispossessed if you want an exposition of how a bunch of intelligent, like minded people can get together to form their own society and it still isn't that great. Lots on the theme of the conflicting needs for isolation and contact both on an individual and societal level.
Imagine a world where nobody discriminates based upon sexual preference, nobody fights, but they hate sometimes (defensive), they haggle, they argue but they never fight.
I live in an isolated island called Australia, its not pretty, people are racist and discriminatory, worshipping sex, money and booze. Do you know why they act like this? Because they've watched so much television from California that they've become addicted to the american dream and have laid waste to their own country (millions of hectares of native forest) simply for the sake of being a cookie cutter California.
Thats what I mean by people being stupid and thats why the peoples opinions stink, the public make BAD descisions.
Take a look at North and South Korea for example, one is completely isolated the other is globally intertwined.
North has no food, very little valuables, little science and technology, very little democratic politics, many people and is for all intents and purposes dependent upon the outside world for handouts.
And has a high sucicide rate.
The South is independent, global, has a huge economy, has technology, sciences, a GREAT education system and a great manufacturing sector.
And has a high suicide rate.
Back to the original discussion. I think a lot of people can't envision a future of being old without being sick, tired and physically unattractive. If they could, they would perhaps be more interested in life extension. I had a student that smoked cigarettes specifically because he did not want to get old. I think Vonnegut said something tongue-in-cheek about his Pall Malls being a 'classy way to commit suicide'; of course he lived to 84 and died from a fall.
When I went shopping for some supplements, my offspring asked me why I wanted them and I said facetiously, 'So I can live for ever'. The child's reply -
'You don't want that, you've already seen too much'. More wise than me, that one. Sometimes I think what we really need is a SENS for the soul.
Its not about being old or sick, its about putting up with the horseshit of surviving in society, human beings are inherently lazy but we are forced to do work because we need it inorder to feed ourselves, inorder to survive.
Human beings are inherently lazy, so build a society based upon being lazy, to accomodate that, and it will be a sucess.
Just look at Australia, some of the laziest people I know are contracted to work 40 hours a week and only do 10 hours a week of actual work.
But its not all roses, the people who dont do work are actually offsetting the workload for somebody else, so you always get that one guy who is doing the work for the lazy ones, its predatory.
Even geniuses want to day dream, but people are inherently lazy. Stupid people make stupid descisions like drink booze and then they wonder why their brain is mush at the age of 43.
Stupid people are predatory and will go to great lengths to bully you into doing their work for them.
Stupid people make bad descisions and will drag the economy down because they need a new liver, on mass, repeated a million or so times.
Stupid people kill the smarter ones for the sake of a few dollars because they cannot see that the value of a life is higher than their next fix of cocaine. (Respect is shown to those who have serious drug problems, but seriously if you are doing drugs then you are causing misery to someone else, EVERYTHING IN LIFE is a 2 way street.)
Its STUPID people that we need to castrate out of society, but that will NEVER happen because they are so easy to fool, to become slaves to the smarter ones. So therefore I propose a society which invites only the tallest people in the world, statistically the taller a person is the smarter they are. (Yes I pulled that one out of my arse)
And yes I am completely delusional, yadda yadda yadda, what ever, its never been tried before, we've tried everything else except for this.
It doesnt matter what your sexual preference is, doesnt matter what your age is, doesnt matter what your skin color is, all that matters is wether or not you are taller than the average person. If you are, then you're in my club.
Craniology should have never been disproven and then forgotten about, I believe it does have some slight merit in todays world, just take a look around you. Taller people i've found make BETTER descisions, not FASTER descisions but BETTER ones, because they think for longer on a problem, that is being misinterpreted as being slow and stupid, but in reality its actually very deep thought.
If a smart person takes into account everything that affects him or her, then that is a smart descision.
If a stupid person takes into account only THEIR selfish needs then that descision only serves to help him/her and disregards OTHERS from the picture entirely, INCLUDING nature and the planet that we survive on. And it is THAT which I am trying to avoid.
People think that because you make a descision quicker therefore you must be smarter, no, its the opposite.
Evolution has shown that taller people are better descision makers, well then why the hell are we letting shorter people make descisions for us for? Its obvious that an entire economy that is based upon fossil fuels was a BAD idea, yet nobody seems to notice or care????
Being taller is a great marker for having the proper nutrients when growing up but not necesserially the greatest upbringing, my upbringing was HORRIBLE and yet even with a large chunk of my brain capacity gone I can still manage to make smarter descisions than nearly EVERYBODY around me?
Nutrition when growing up is a serious issue that as a society we have COMPLETELY ignored in favor for drugs/sugars/good feelings. Yes sure we've made supplements, but are we all giving them to the kids? No? Then you have a serious issue. The mere fact that you haven't thought about giving your kids nutritional supplements is a cause for concern, EVERY child should have the right to grow up fully prepared for what awaits he/she out there.
I've found that shorter people in general, the average person, is happier aswell, much more of a risk taker than I am, that is NOT a good thing because making terrible descisions will get you KILLED, and will get other taller people killed aswell,.
SO why am I living in a society that favours these kinds of people when I want to live forever? Why not make my own society whereby common sense, awareness of surroundings, knowledge, understanding, hope for the future, longevity, are all favoured virtues? Because short people come in and try to fuck it up every single time. BECAUSE THEY ARE PREDATORY. Then bitch and moan about being discriminated against because they're short.
Well fuck you short people! I'm gonna go make my own damn society, with hookers and blackjack.
And by the way, why is it that we value technological progress but we shun and hate people who favour genetic progress? Hitler did some bad shit but SO ARE WE by not propagating the right genes along the line.
I DO NOT descriminate against sexual preference, skin color, race, or political viewpoints, personal viewpoints, ideas, moral standings, yet I cannot seem to bring myself towards having sex with a shorter woman and watching as my offspring gets stupider and stupider as each generation goes on.
Edited by Layberinthius, 07 November 2013 - 12:22 AM.