Favorite Colors

A popular idea is that someone having a certain favorite color or colors shows that they have a certain personality or preference. This sometimes includes their least favorites. So, they are sometimes judged based on that.

But consider that blue (various shades) is by far the world’s most favorite colour. It is an overall favorite of men & women, boys & girls, young & old, rich & poor, intelligent & dumb, white & black, gay & straight, Christian & Atheist, conservative & liberal, tall & short, fat & thin, and those living on every continent, having wildly different likes and dislikes. Also consider that orange and brown are the overall least favorite among every group I mentioned.

Now what causes us to see in color? That would be the type of photoreceptor cells called cones within the eye’s retina. Most humans have three cone types: S, M, and L, or trichromacy. The number of cones and cone type percentages in each person varies a great deal. This is undoubtedly the main reason for palette preferences and dislikes.

That women on average have a greater interest in colour than men can be explained by most women having more cones of each type than most men. Some even have tetrachromacy: possessing a fourth type, while colorblindness among men is far more common, along with having dichromacy (only two cone types). Complete colorblindness or monochromacy is exceedingly rare.

These facts, taken together, should refute this belief that you can know something about someone based on their subjective color preference/s. That counterproductive notion, which amounts to unfair judgmentalism, should be dismissed as readily as the ideas of palm reading or reading tea leaves.

Another idea is that the use of various colours always symbolizes specific things. So, assumptions are sometimes made about their use. For example, the idea that pronounced use of red clearly indicates Communism, although those who so use it may be anti-Communist and oppose it completely. Or the idea that to diffuse a bomb, always cut the red wire, which is utter nonsense.

Though use or neglect of various colorants often does symbolize something, every single color can mean absolutely anything you want it to mean or nothing at all. The significance in their use can only be known if their user said what they stand for.

In conjunction with this, a so-called ecological valence theory might help explain why people use different colors. That is, perhaps hue preference is somewhat determined by the average affective response to everything an individual associates with the color. Hence, uplifting emotional experience with things of a particular pigmentation likely increase the propensity to prefer or use that colour. Bad emotional experiences would do the opposite.

So, to get a complete understanding of why anyone would use or neglect any tint or shade, or for that matter, prefer or neglect any words, images, mannerisms, customs, styles, or whatnot, you would have to know that person exceptionally well, which would take years.

Please keep in mind what I’ve said. Most importantly, I give all thanks to our God, the Father of lights (James 1:17), which photons allow us to see an entire spectrum of colors, each one of which possesses its own unique beauty.

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Book Review: “Fearmorphosis”

I present the latest highly imaginative and complex book authored by philosopher Desh Subba: FEARMORPHOSIS. Again, his core underlying philosophy of “fearism” (that sentient beings are primarily guided by self-preservation impulses, whether such impulses are natural and beneficial or manifest via ignorance and paranoia) underpins and interweaves within his book’s topics. Here he emphasizes how this impulse, coupled with other elements, transforms one’s life. I now summarize each distinct section using my own perspective:

{Part 1—Myth of Sisyphus: ~ORIGIN~ In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was the founder and king of Corinth. Hades punished him for cheating death by forcing him to roll a gigantic boulder uphill only for it to roll back down whenever it neared the top, repeating this action for eternity. Although preposterous if meant as literal truth, I see it as grandiose hyperbole. Through that supposition it influenced modern thought. Namely, tasks that are both laborious and futile are therefore labeled Sisyphean.

~MODERN LIFE APPLICATIONS~ A) True Sisyphean situations: These include drug addiction and gambling addiction, since they cause ongoing misery and wasted labor since wages support the vices. They also include endlessly chasing women. That’s because certain men are unable to attract an appropriate female, and through society’s pressure enslave themselves to this millstone, losing time, money, and sanity. Recognizing oneself as a Sisyphus allows escape, whether via aggressive addiction treatment, finding peace in the celibate single life, or other appropriate action.

B) Faux-Sisyphean situations: They include the false notion that normal productive jobs are a complete waste, leading one to choose a life of crime or vagrancy, or to take shortcuts or do sloppy work while tackling projects, resulting in low quality outcomes or failure. Again, realizing the truth and being willing to act upon it solves the problem.}

{Part 2—Panopticons: ~ORIGIN~ A panopticon is a penal institution, whose design originated in the late 18th century. Its architecture consists of a rotunda with a central inspection house having viewing portholes or windows at every critical geometric angle. The purpose was to allow all prisoners therein to be observed by a single security guard. Although impossible for a single watchman to observe all inmates at once or at all times, the inmates cannot know when they’re being watched. Theoretically, it motivates them to act as though they are always watched, effectively compelling them to self-regulate.

~MODERN LIFE APPLICATIONS~ A) Scarecrow panopticons: For example, some people have promoted the nonsense idea that governments spy on citizens through devices such as Siri or Alexa robots and suchlike, resulting in failure to harness useful technology. B) Righteous panopticons: The ever-increasing prevalence of security cameras qualifies, if used to deter crime. And certainly, GOD’s all-seeing EYE trumps every panopticon construct, as He is truly all-observing and perfectly good.

C) Unrighteous panopticons: This includes every imaginable group of people, from immediate family up to everyone on our planet, if their position cannot be backed with objective facts. Conceding to popular opinion or peer pressure is never wise. Quoting Saint Augustine: “Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.” Recognizing the difference between these variations leads to wisdom and proper application.}

{Part 3—Scapegoats: ~ORIGIN~ The Hebrew Tanakh contains numerous historical accounts of animal sacrifice (biblical types or foreshadowing). The LORD, in a way that we cannot fully comprehend, decreed that such expedient sacrifices (scapegoats that were sometimes literal goats) were necessary to sanctify unto the purifying of sinful man.

When humanity was fertile enough to receive the supreme antitype, the second person in the godhead was sent to Gaia Earth as a willing scapegoat and ultimate sacrifice which provided cleansing from and forgiveness of all sins, contingent upon choosing to serve the living God. The historical account of this Lord Jesus Christ is documented in the Christian “New Testament.”

~MODERN LIFE APPLICATIONS~ A) Legitimate scapegoats: The only just examples I can conceive of are the aforementioned Bible stories. Embracing their truth is paramount, superseding every worldly concern.

B) Unrighteous scapegoating: This includes anyone who has an obvious difference and whose mistreatment is predicated upon it, whether as an individual (often an autistic man) or as a pariah class (such as the Palestinians or Indian Dalits), for the scapegoater’s real or imagined benefit. This sometimes includes parents assigning perpetual blame to their child in order to redirect their exasperation away from their own self-made marital problems. In attempt to justify warfare and plunder, one country or Allied group will affix an evil moniker to another country or Axis.}

{Part 4:—Capitals: Herein Mr. Subba explains that unfortunately, much of life is dominated by politico-economic concerns since most people deify appetite. Instead of succumbing to the prevailing polarization, he rightly criticizes both binary opposites: Marxism, with its utopia communism, and Capitalism, with its utopia laissez-faireism. For example, Marxist’s lack of any spiritual panopticon, whose theophobia is motivated by the desire for big government to be idolized.

Therefore, everyone would be dependent on a draconian State (most of which history tells us have been malicious), without interference from any ideas of higher authority. Another example is Desh going beyond just acknowledging the existence of some unsavory elements such as crony Capitalism, but spotlighting the existence of vampire Capitalism, and that all forms of Capitalism are very problematic. Perhaps our author will suggest a solution to this dilemma in the future.}

{Part 5:—De-metamorphosis: Here our author extensively references the book Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. Therein the main character Gregor Samsa is pressured into acquiring an especially demanding and unpleasant job because his parents and sister do not work, and he feels obligated to support them. Since his worries led him into a semi-Sisyphean situation, closely monitored by family and society, Gregor had become a “fear Sisyphus being watched by panopticons.” Desh emphasizes the fact that men are regularly used as mere commodities without humanity.

Then one day, Gregor’s physique transformed to resemble a giant harmful looking insect. This masking ironically unmasked society’s true motivations. Desh also realizes that instead of seeing this unusual work as merely reflecting the author’s personality, “Kafkaesque needs to be reread from a scapegoat perspective”, he exclaims. That is, people are stupid enough to fail to recognize the true soul beyond their differences, and stupidly marginalize others even if they would benefit from them. Hopefully our author will pinpoint solutions to these problems henceforth.}

I shall expound no further, as to not cancel the element of pleasant surprise, nor to impinge upon Mr. Subba’s exact intentions (at least not purposely or excessively). To help prevent readers from getting lost in a dark forest of opaque profundities, I recommend them familiarizing themselves with mythology and renowned philosophers, both Eastern and Western, and Desh’s touchstone book Philosophy of Fearism, as prerequisites.

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Book Review: “Trans-Philosophism”

{Ready to be flabbergasted by a unique book totally unlike any ever encountered before? Author, lecturer, and philosopher Desh Subba, along with editor/part translator/quotation source R. Michael Fisher, have produced such a book: Trans Philosophism.>

First, this book has nothing whatsoever to do with transgender people or “sex changes”, as many might suppose, considering how the word trans is now commonly used. Instead, Mr. Subba uses trans to denote his desire to transfer what he sees as impractical philosophy to practical application, and to transcend just one or two philosophies or philosophical branches, while seemingly attempting to embrace the entire smorgasbord of the philosophical spectrum as an all you can eat buffet. Here philosophism is defined as affectation of philosophical knowledge and the enjoyment of applying it.>

This includes Desh’s extravagant implication that his fear-ism philosophy tops all previous philosophies in some regards, which he attempts to interweave into other philosophies. So, to better understand his current book, being familiar with his previously authored Philosophy of Fearism is prerequisite. Moreover, Desh opines that to best learn philosophy, we should start with its genesis at around six hundred years Before Christ, which began with the Greek philosophers. In fact, the word philosophy comes from the Greek word philosophia, meaning love of wisdom.}

{Another consideration to keep in mind is that Mr. Subba originates from Nepal, and his thoughts, notetaking, and rough drafts rest wholly on the Nepali language, despite his apparent attempt to appeal to western and English-speaking readers. A cursory reading of Desh’s book may give the impression of a chaotic gallimaufry of miscellanea. However, deeper examination should make the subtle systematization of his agglomeration materialize. A prime example is his simultaneous explanation and critique of Marxism which permeates throughout.>

Consider that Nepalese Capitalism was hopelessly infested with neoliberalism, leading to monopolistic and unfettered conditions which shrewd and manipulative citizens used to crush honest and less sophisticated ones. In desperation to escape this “disastrous capitalism”, citizens welcomed Marxist ideology and its inevitable lead to Communism. Consider Nepal’s caste system: a society divided into classes, with the lowest class: Dalits or “Untouchables.”>

This group was/is forced into the filthiest, most dangerous jobs with minimal pay. When Communism then arrived, Communists originally gave this Dalit community far more respect and opportunities, some even taking the revolutionary step of shedding their upper class and upper caste identities. However, the Communist’s steady increase in power coincided with a steady whittling away of these gains, until benefits of this noble aspect have often vanished completely.>

So, considering Marxism’s theoretical claims and temporary successes and alleviations of degradation, destitution, and distress, along with Nepalese Capitalism’s vampiric nature, Mr. Subba naturally wants to avoid making Marxist ideology and Communism vanish without thought or consideration as Capitalists would. Also consider that capitalism is not a new innovation. Rather, it evolved from the preceding feudal age. As Desh points out, the bourgeoisie shattered that feudal system, rebuilding into a capitalist society. However, when the Dr. Jekyll bourgeoisie came to power, their character turned into Mr. Hyde.>

Therefore, Desh sees socialism as a major function of hope. I do too: not “red” Marxist socialism, but a goldenrod nationalistic socialism of Third Position politics like Volkism. So instead, Desh wants to metamorphosize Communism into something else, like beating and polishing the bent rusty sword of oppressive Communist governments into shiny ploughshares to serve the people. This includes removing Marxist aporia (internal contradiction), chief of which is requiring another ruling class (big government) to replace the bourgeoisie in order to be implemented, instead of being purely classless.>

It certainly includes infusing Mr. Subba’s “fear factor”, which I prefer to call original and innate self-preservation impulses, which Marxism fails to adequately address. Specifically, he wants to change Marxism’s dialectic materialism into “fearological materialism.” Desh also declares that Marx “turned upside down on its head much of Hegel” (guiding principles of the great 18th-19th century philosopher Georg Hegel). Also, being a philosopher, Mr. Subba would have been especially impacted by prevailing Marxist ideology. Hence why he continues to mentally wrestle with it. This wrestling continues for most of the book. However, don’t even entertain the notion that Desh considers political solutions as any universal panacea.}

{For example, he declares that even politics (often materialism) and religion (often idealism) combined are insufficient. In fact, he declares them meaningless unless each applies a theory of subsistence. Another example is Desh’s observation that although Hegel gave remarkably valuable insights, he, along with other religious philosophers and theologians, were bewitched by the extreme conclusion that all history was completely ruled by God’s divine will. That is, that ideas could not arise without God, and history was predominantly God revealing Himself, thus leading to inevitable progress with just a smidgen of man’s participation.>

It should be obvious that continued following of this notion would lead to society’s collapse. However, this dogmatism was not birthed by Christianity, but rather by misuse of religion to cope with frightening circumstances by sweeping them under the blanket of vacuous platitudes. Besides, nowhere in Christian scripture does it teach this, despite continued attempts to bend texts to zigzag out of responsibility and avoid the straight and narrow path. Instead, humanity is presented as steward carte blanche of Creation, and recipient of the grave consequences of mismanagement.>

Christianity and Mr. Subba’s fear-ism are compatible and, in my opinion, complementary. He certainly does not consider the sinful fear of cowardice as any basic component. In fact, he insists it must be eliminated to a large extent, if not obliterated. Consider his novel The Tribesman’s Journey to Fearless. But he also recognizes the exception: the law needing to maintain the threat of terror like Cerberus upon society’s potential hooligans, leeches, and predators.}

{For more encompassing considerations, Desh has a whimsical Theory of Playing Cards: In figure 4, he had spades (swords in medieval Latin decks) as everyday needs or class struggle, clubs (wands in Latin, reminiscent of the Bible’s Aaron’s rod that budded supernaturally) as religion, diamonds (coins in Latin) as recurring emotions, and hearts (cups in Latin) as fear. Yet later he has diamonds as needs/class struggle, which is more sensible as it is based around money/wealth. Moreover, he has Hearts as the trump suit.>

Again, Desh uses fear not to denote its common definition as an emotion like any other, but as our inner alarm to maintain subsistence. It can even be non-emotional. Consider that whether our heart beats or not is of primary concern even before birth, which continues endlessly. The other factors not of perpetual pressing concern come later. Though everyone admits to everyday physical needs and wants, and many admit to spiritual needs, we must recognize the impact of other people’s emotions on us, and our emotions on ourselves.>

Earthlings are far more emotional and less logical than they will admit, with emotion driven actions impaling others like swords. We can even be a victim of our overwhelming emotions, which become a spade digging us into an inescapable pit. Desh cleverly refers to people as Fear sapiens. Yet I would remove sapiens (Latin for knowledge or wisdom) and perhaps designate humankind Homo timoribus (Latin for fears). Having an “inflated brain” does not indicate what that brain might be inflated with!>

Humans continuing to wield bombs instead of bananas would be de-evolution or dysgenics if not extinction. Perhaps some are Homo fatua, yet others Homo podex. The random deck shuffling and subsequent hands dealt represents the actions of others, our environment, and our biological limits (Determinism) that we cannot control. The playability of the cards represents our free will. As far as individual cards, Desh leaves that to our imagination, except to suggest that kings represent chosen rulers.}

{Interestingly, Desh applies Newton’s three universal laws of motion to societal motion: “1st Law: a society continues in its state of rest or uniform motion unless compelled by a fear force to change its state. 2nd Law: rate of change of societal momentum is directly proportional to the applied fear and takes in the direction of force. 3rd Law: to every action of fear there is an equal and opposite (relativity) reaction in development.” Also interesting is his personification of various hazards and threatening concerns into characters such as Dracula, Godzilla, and Thanatos (Greek mythology’s embodiment of death).}

{Mr. Subba uses unusual abbreviations that readers may not understand. So, I define them as: B3 = three basic needs: food, shelter, and clothing. D3 = oppression tactics of degrade, disrupt, deny. N6 = Nature’s six common destructive forces that our ancient ancestors had to contend with: hot weather, cold weather, wind, thunderstorms, hail, and earthquakes. P3 = public private partnership.>

S4 = four types of states known in history: slave, feudal, capitalist, socialist. W4 = four oppressed types of workers under the bourgeoisie (ruling class): general working class, peasants or agricultural laborers, proletariat (wage earners whose only possession of monetary value is their labor), and “laborers” (unskilled workers). 5F = five “fear” (impetus) factors: conditional reflexes, environment, incidents, necessities, sense organs.}

{Most extraordinary is Mr. Subba’s following outlook: Since Earth was void for ages before the existence of human beings, the place of humans is purely supplementary. Also, Earth would continue even in the absence of human beings. And when humans reproduce, our planet continues to adopt new creatures. He also notes that any excess of humans either causes the extinction of plants and animals or prevents their birth. This refreshing departure from anthropocentricism seems the result of Desh’s being impacted with eastern religious thought such as Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism, which theoretically reverence all of life, whether or not practitioners are loyal to such core principles.>

Though American Christians often have substandard regards here, I see this as the result of Christianity, a religion with Eastern roots, becoming westernized and republicanized. In fact, even panpsychism (universal consciousness) is indicated in Christian scripture. Mark 4:39 & 41: “And he [Jesus] arose, and rebuked the wind and said unto the sea, ‘Peace, be still.’ And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. And they [His disciples] feared exceedingly, and said one to another, ‘What manner of man is this, that even the wind and sea obey him?'” Creation is actually designed so it is impossible for humans to exist without other life forms. Thus, we are not to dominate, but are born as complimentary.>

Desh applies fear-ism philosophy to aid Mother Earth, Father Ether, and our feathered, furry, and leafy comrades in his section Sober Fear in the Sky. Therein he expounds on the specific problems of global warming, ozone loss, new health crises caused by stress and adaptive viruses (micro-monsters), human overpopulation, pollution, potential threat of asteroid impact, oxygen depletion, and the aforementioned impact on other life forms. This subject is covered in considerably more detail in the book Eco-Fearism which Desh coauthored.}

{He also has some thoughts on social consciousness, the science and technology revolutions, the meaning and impact of language including dialectics, and the significance of art, music, race, and culture. He also has a section: Challenging Questions to Postmodernism. To roughly define postmodernism, we can say that this mode of thinking and discourse rests on hostility toward what it considers the monolithic narratives of “Modernism” (the 17th-18th century Enlightenment). Though the Enlightenment impetus was overly materialistic, it thankfully promoted logic, objective reality, and scientific rigor. This helped defeat old superstitions.>

But poisonous Postmodernism, which mushroomed in the 19th-20th centuries, introduced relativism, rejection of objective reality and morality, rejection of historical and well-established binary oppositions, and the insane concept of hyperreality. This is the supposed inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation, a direct affront to Descartes’s Cogito, ergo sum. So, in subtle fashion, Mr. Subba derides Derrida, Foucault, and other infamous postmodernists with his fear-y queries.}

{Also, Trans Philosophism contains 474 source references, an index, and a short glossary. Finally, you need not agree with everything Desh postulates (such as feminism and other liberal ideas I find anathema). As stated before, there is a cafeteria of ideas to choose from and explore, some of which seem experimental, unlike his firmly established fear-ism. So, if you are a perspicacious intellectual who is interested in philosophy, I recommend this book. May Mr. Subba’s journey continue, along with his readers’.}

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Book Review: “Philosophy of Fearism”

Author, lecturer, and philosopher Desh Subba, a resident of Hong Kong, has utilized his passion for philosophy to, along with translator Rajendra Subba, collaborate on and create the book Philosophy of Fearism. Mr. Subba’s major premise is that various “fears” have been a perpetual impetus for all sentient beings from the beginning of Gaia Earth’s history until today. To counteract the deemphasis of this integral component, he sometimes waxes hyperbolically.

One definition of fear among several is: a chronic emotional state characterized by distress. We should naturally seek to eliminate this, as men should not be Nervous Nellies, but should instead be brave. However, many quixotically claim that all fear should be eliminated. Some even seek to exclude the fear defined as calm recognition or consideration of whatever may injure or damage. This wrongheaded thinking is foolhardy, leading to disaster.

For example, some people in my United States venture into ghettos or Third World countries, where they are attacked, robbed, kidnapped, or murdered. Also, many have dismissed the danger of the Coronavirus pandemic. So, they either failed to get vaccinated or refused to quarantine, thus ending up hospitalized or prematurely dead. Some had substituted the bizarre fear that vaccines contained microchips that our government used to track people.

Others abuse dangerous drugs, drive recklessly, or enter abusive relationships despite the warning signs. Yet others are foolishly careless in a variety of ways. In fact, eschewing necessary components of the fear-ist construct due to misguided bravado could culminate in oneself being the source of danger. That is, one “having their conscience seared with a hot iron” (1st Timothy 4:1-2), which in today’s vernacular is a sociopath.

While mentioning Mr. Subba’s philosophy and my support of it, a friend vehemently argued against it, saying that we should fear nothing, not even fear itself. However, years back we were at a restaurant. A mutual friend ordered a flaming cheesecake. After it arrived the waiter pressed close, lit it, and whoosh! it overly erupted with a large fireball. Immediately my “no fear” friend’s eyes bulged out, and with a big frown, violently jerked backward. Then laughter erupted, and rightfully so. This should have exploded that false pretense.

Moreover, Desh understands that most people turn to religion not for spiritual enlightenment, but to escape fears of death, destructive forces, inability to cope with daily life, inability to meet worldly standards, etc. We mutually understand that such hypocritical people adopt phony fabrications of virtue.

Yet he also understands that religions produce their own fear of gods, hell, constrictive conservative values, failure to meet religious standards, etc. So, I must conclude that people, likely all, reject virtue-based religion not for scientific enlightenment as claimed, but to escape the aforementioned fears. They too hypocritically adopt phony masquerades of virtue.

Though Mr. Subba uses the word fear in superfluous fashion, so did ancient texts. Example: “The fear of the LORD is honor, glory, gladness, and a crown of rejoicing. The fear of the LORD maketh a merry heart, and giveth joy, gladness, and long life.”————Ecclus. (Sirach) 1:11-12 KJV 1611. And “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not perfected in love.” (1st Epistle of John 4:18 KJV 1611)

Far from classical wisdom literature contradicting itself, identical words often acquire antonymous definitions or nuanced shades of meaning according to context. Thankfully, as someone living in our Anno Domini twenty-first century, and whose native language is English, I have the luxury of a variegated panoply of quasi-synonymous words being at my service. Therefore, for “good fears”, I utilize such idiomatic words as: awe, alarm, cautiousness, conscientiousness, reverence, veneration, etc.

In lieu of “bad fears”, such terms as angst, cowardice, paranoia, phobias, superstition, trepidation, and suchlike. Yet other expressions still rely heavily on context, for example, anxiousness, aversion, dread, inquietude, suspicion, and worry. Mr. Subba is splendidly aware of these fundamental delineations. In fact, he gives numerous examples of absolutely essential concerns within the fear-ism construct. These include fear of crime, disease, homelessness, inclement weather, failing a test, starvation, etc. His correct conclusion is that being wary of such possibilities propels us to escape them and find betterment.

He also gives various examples of decisively harmful attitudes within the fear-ism construct. For example, blind obedience and trust of human authority, jealousy, various superstitions, obsolete concerns or those stemming from character weakness or misinformation, and finally, phobia. This culminates in his supplying an Appendix listing 537 alphabetized phobias, whether documented or alleged. In fact, Mr. Subba wisely dichotomizes fears into good and bad. So, for a secondary book title I would have: Life is Conducted, Directed, and Controlled by *Fears*, instead of *the Fear*.

Mr. Subba’s major premise is correct in that people throughout history understood that various fears govern creation to a large extent. Wise men also understood that fear is only possible with consciousness and knowledge of the feared object or circumstance. They also understood that humans thus had far more fears than other animals, animals with developed minds having more worries than those with undeveloped minds, and that intelligent humans had more pressing concerns than unintelligent ones. They were also aware that this double-edged sword could be redeemed as a predominantly productive force.

Since Mr. Subba concludes likewise, his philosophy is old in that respect. In other ways, his work is new and innovative. First consider his coining the words fearist, fearism, and fearology. Though no dictionary currently contains these words, they perfectly describe Mr. Subba’s construct and body of thought. Thoughtful men are rightful stewards and procreators of human language. Since I myself find it imperative to deny the existence of time as an entity, I have coined the words achronosist and achronosism.

Our ists describe what we are believers or disbelievers in. Our isms describe the prefixed philosophy. And Mr. Subba’s ology, like other ologies, is the study of said subject. He also considers modern science. For example, noting that behavioral experiments have been conducted with mice. Normal mice with an amygdala, the part of the brain involved in experiencing emotions, naturally fled from a cat. However, mice lacking an amygdala unwisely stayed to lick or chase the cat.

Also new is Mr. Subba’s classifying human fears according to historical epochs, cultures and regions, causes and determining factors, and other useful delineations. On one side, resembling a battery’s positive pole, his focus is harnessing natural fears as impetus for betterment. Consider his illustrative book cover showing a fish unsatisfied with his limited bowl and leaping into a bigger, better environment.

He also has an interesting conclusion that even plants like creeping vines react to a red-light alert when encountering drought or darkness, and thus spiral their tendrils outward towards water and sunlight, sometimes resulting in such vegetation blanketing homes like an emperor’s cloak. While I am from the western Occident, Mr. Subba is from the eastern Orient. Therefore, his book is peppered with Buddhist and Hindu perspectives.

However, he also quotes Greek philosophers such as Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates, and French philosopher Rene’ Descartes. To be precise, Philosophy of Fearism contains 195 source references, 80 diagrams, and an index. On the flipside, resembling a battery’s negative pole, Mr. Subba concludes that we can minimize (but not currently eliminate) bad fears, and he can show us how. This aspect is interwoven throughout his book.

Not until our afterworld’s final destination will all fears become obsolete, since former things will have passed away (Revelation 21:4). Though I disagree with some of his minor premises, his major premise is undoubtedly true, which should be the reader’s focus. And without hesitation I can confidently say that Mr. Subba intends to make our world a better place through his creative writing. Thus, I definitely recommend this book.

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Dazed & Confused Quiz

Here is my third quiz based around proven facts about our world. Will it reveal you as highly knowledgeable about life, or dazed and confused? Though the questions may be counterintuitive, there are no trick questions per se. Please fetch a pencil or pen and paper. Answers appear after question 17. Here goes:

?1) What is the hardest and toughest metal of this list: aluminum, pig iron, steel, titanium, titanium steel, tungsten

?2) Which of these countries has the most pyramids: Argentina, Brazil, China, Egypt, Peru, Sudan

?3) Medieval chastity belts were used by: daughters of royalty only, nobody, peasants only, various people throughout the Middle Ages, virgins only

?4) Which of these kills the most people per year worldwide: alligators, champagne corks, sharks, spiders, vending machines, wolves

?5) What is the deadliest animal on Earth to humans: crocodiles, female mosquitoes, male mosquitoes, lions, snakes, vampire bats

?6) Who built the Egyptian pyramids: Egyptian pharaohs, Egyptian slaves, Israeli slaves, paid laborers, space aliens

?7) Removing all the empty space between our atoms, our entire world human population could most properly fit into a/an: apple, atom smasher, football stadium, New York City, toilet, white dwarf

?8) If you cut a starfish, it will bleed: blue blood, green blood, it cannot bleed, red blood, yellow blood

?9) What creatures have the greatest brain to body mass ratio: ants, dust mites, humans, dolphins, monkeys, parrots

?10) Which creatures have the largest brain: Bigfoot, blue whales, elephants, dolphins, humans, sperm whales

?11) Who invented electricity:

?12) What and where is the largest pyramid in the world:

?13~ What nationality was Queen Cleopatra:

?14) Why did the Pilgrims come to the New World on the Mayflower for:

?15) What animal can go the longest without water: armadillos, bears, camels, cicadas, donkeys, kangaroo rats.

?16) What could cause you to have autism:

?17) In the United States, how does the number of vacant homes compare to the number of homeless people: about an even number of vacant homes and homeless, far less vacant homes than homeless, far more vacant homes than homeless, slightly less vacant homes than homeless, slightly more vacant homes than homeless

ANSWERS:

A1) Tungsten is the hardest and toughest. It is infrequently used (outside of light bulbs for its highest melting and boiling points) due to its rarity.

A2) There are twice as many pyramids in Sudan than in Egypt, the most of any country: 255.

A3) Nobody used chastity belts; they are a myth. Most examples were made in the 18th and 19th centuries as jokes.

A4) Champagne corks kill the most people, usually at weddings.

A5) Female mosquitoes are deadliest to humans because they transmit the deadly disease malaria. And the males don’t bite. The females bite to collect blood to nourish their eggs.

A6) The Egyptian pyramids were built by paid laborers.

A7) Since our atoms and hence our bodies are mostly empty space, by removing the empty space between all atoms, everyone’s matter on Earth would fit into one apple.

A8) Starfish cannot bleed. There is seawater in their vascular system instead of blood.

A9) Ants have the highest brain to body mass ratio of any known animal: 1:7.

A10) Sperm whales have the largest known brains, weighing around 20 pounds or 8 kilograms.

A11) Nobody! Electricity is a natural phenomenon.

A12) The Great Pyramid of Cholula, Mexico. Though shorter than Egypt’s Great Pyramid, its much wider base makes it much greater in volume.

A13) Though she was the last queen of Egypt, Cleopatra was Greek, and a descendant of Alexander the Great’s Macedonian general Ptolemy.

A14) The pilgrims were not motivated by religious freedom. Instead, they left Holland since their country allowed for Atheism, Catholicism, and Judaism alongside Protestantism, and they were Separatists.

A15) Kangaroo rats: a specialized animal, never needs to drink water or any liquid.

A16) Nothing! Either you were born with autism, or you were not.

A17) Although we have over 500,000 homeless people, we have over 10 million vacant homes. And the number one cause of homelessness is lack of affordable housing. Talk about American greed. END OF QUIZ

It has been said “It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled.” This makes sense since people often base their thinking and behavior on feelings, not facts. And others lie and do not have your best interests in mind. Lies, repeated often enough, often become seen as unquestionable truth. And most people hate admitting that they have been fooled for decades, as sinful pride controls them. So, I would not even accept the word of *any* human authority whatsoever. Instead, I would doublecheck, triple-check, or quadruple-check every supposed fact and claim. This quiz should have demonstrated how distorted things can be if you trust the word of other people. So, remember this and apply it to the most important issues in life.

The Swastika

The swastika is our world’s oldest known symbol, dating back to the Stone Age. Usually considered an abstract symbol of our Sun, it is also said to represent God. For some it represents the entirety of creation; for others, Eternity. For still others it represents life and power, or the importance of struggle and action: a perpetual motion. The swastika was incorporated by the ancient Celts, Chinese, Egyptians, Greeks, Indians, Japanese, Persians, and Romans. It is considered a sacred religious symbol in Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Taoism. It was also a Christian symbol, having been incorporated into church architecture, icons, and vestments.

One of my favorite uses of the swastika is that of Native Americans, to whom it represented a whirling log. According to one legend, a man was a social outcast among his tribe. So people from the community tied him to a log and threw it into a violent river to get rid of him. Eventually the spinning log carried him far away into a land of prosperity where people loved and accepted him. Like the legendary tribesman, I’m a social outcast due to society’s ignorance and degeneracy. Yet I understand that my Utopia will not be realized in this life, but in the next.

In modern times the swastika was used as a symbol of good fortune. Until quite recently, the swastika was used by almost every country in Europe, being used as emblems on coins, flags, and medals, and emblazoned on numerous sports team’s jackets and jerseys. In the United States the swastika emblem was used by the Allentown Cement Company, Boy Scouts, Coca-Cola Company, Deep Creek Mining Company, Krit automobiles, and the U. S. Army. It was used by tool companies, clothing companies, and to advertise medicines and deodorant. In addition to the symbol, many companies/products also used the name swastika, such as the Swastika Drug Company, Swastika brand flour, the Swastika bread company, and Swastika matches.

Swastikas appeared on state highway signs, furnace valves, postcards, wedding dresses, spoons, and forks. There were American lightbulbs with a swastika as their filament. When turned on, the swastika lit up the room. It was literally used in thousands of ways in the United States alone. Use of the ubiquitous swastika dramatically vanished in the Western world after World War 2, from its prominent and extravagant use by Hitler and the Nazis. However, consider the towns of Swastika, New York and Swastika, Ontario. And Sun microsystems has a swastika hidden in its logo.

Now the meanings of a flag I display in some videos which features a swastika: One is a sense of one’s own cultural pride. That opposes the Marxist idea of creating a melting pot, which obliterates everyone’s cultural identity and heritage. This flag was created in the early 20th century. The cross represents Christianity; the letters D C stand for Deutche Cristen, German words meaning German Christians. (I’m Christian and half German). The black swastika on a white circle with a red background is for Mr. Hitler’s National Socialist German Worker’s Party (whom many call the Nazi party). And I’m a National Socialist.

Don’t believe what the corrupt media says or what you were taught in schools, who teach a distorted version of history here. Germany was on the verge of complete economic and societal collapse, while Germans starved to death. This was largely due to Marxist Communists, most of whom were Jewish. To save the people from utter destruction, Mr. Hitler and his supporters had to take radical action. German Christians understood that extreme measures by the State had to be taken for Christianity within their nation to survive, as in the time of Constantine and the Holy Roman Empire. They therefore sought to amalgamate Christianity and Mr. Hitler’s powerful political system, calling it Positive Christianity.

Here’s why I consider symbols other than the swastika, by themselves, unsatisfactory: 1~ Most of today’s Christian believers, symbolized by the cross, desire the separation of Church and State, which often renders Christianity impotent. “Positive Christians” wisely had the opposite view.

2) Cross or fish symbols are limited, as most people worldwide are not Christian. Country flags certainly have limited appeal, to citizens of one specific nation or nationality only. Yet the swastika can appeal to citizens of most countries, and several different major world religions and cultures worldwide.

3) Most Christian believers today use the cross symbol. Yet today’s Christian world is infested with Modernism such as radical feminism and a diluted and weakened message across the board. Since the swastika is apparently the world’s oldest symbol and was discarded by the West after the 1940s, I see it as representing old fashioned values.

4) Most of today’s believers appear to be Christians in name only, while the swastika represents power and action. To me it even looks powerful, like a propeller or man running. It is one of the few symbols that is the same backwards, upside down, sideways, or any angle. Other symbols must be forward and straight up; otherwise their meaning is changed or lost.

5) Even now the vast majority of Christian believers claim that the entire Bible is God-authored, although the Jewish Old Testament contains numerous contradictions, scientific errors, and morally reprehensible texts. Many believers consider mere coincidences as proof that God guides them. Many are unscientific, an example being those who claim that Earth is flat. On the contrary, “Positive Christians” rejected the authority of the Old Testament and the idea of a God-authored book as I myself do. Instead, members of the “Nazi” party had a heavy emphasis on science and Natural Law.

6) Atheists complain that Christianity represents subservience, inaction, and weakness. However, Positive Christianity blows that away, with its emphasis on Jesus as warrior, and its impetus from the super-macho Adolf Hitler. Atheists are dishonest when complaining that Christian history was too violent. They feign peace now because they are in the minority. When Atheists were in power under Communist regimes they murdered tens of millions of Christian believers.

7) Being politically correct and careful not to offend people has FAILED. Radical Leftists have become increasingly extreme and seek to destroy every single traditional value. For example, conservatives quickly conceded to eliminate swastikas. Liberals were satisfied for awhile, but then began an outcry against cherished Confederate flags. After Confederate flags were largely eliminated, liberals even took aim at the current American flag, crosses, and nativity scenes. The only way to beat liberal extremism is to be extreme in the opposite way, as pressing down on the far Right of a lever is required to make it upright if it is being weighed down by a barrel of toxic waste on its far Left. So man up.

Polls & Statistics

Statistics based on polls and inventories are the best way of knowing how society thinks and behaves, which helps us know how to tackle current problems. Polls and statistics are great. However, polls and statistics have been manipulated and misunderstood to the degree of being harmful and misleading. The saying “Beware of statistics” holds much truth. Notorious statistics reside in Alfred Kinsey’s books Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and ……………………Female (1953). But their polls only came from volunteers who were probed face to face, or who were even expected to make an explicit film, in a conservative era when sex was extremely private. Therefore, extraordinarily high percentages of adults were said to have engaged in taboo practices.

The circumstances through which Kinsey got his data INVALIDATE his studies, since they rarely included average, conventional people. I made my own poll on the now defunct LiveLeak. I needed numerous duplicates of this poll under various videos because the insignificant number of responses from only one would make the result meaningless. I also put the poll under videos about other subjects that had absolutely nothing to do with the poll question. I had to do it that way. Otherwise, my results would be invalid. I’ll explain: Let’s say there’s a video about skiing. It rarely ever comes up in a search by someone who is not searching for skiing videos. And let’s say that underneath the skiing video is a poll asking the viewer if they have ever gone skiing.

That poll would be WORTHLESS because the demographic would be so particularly funneled by the search engine. Whenever people see a poll, and know its subject beforehand, say it’s about elephant riding, most without such experience avoid the poll, and so its results may say that 75% of people have ridden an elephant, which we know is completely false. The only ways such polls could be valid is if everyone around was provoked into taking them, for example, voting in elections. Even censuses do not blare beforehand what they will ask, and feature numerous questions, not just one. Since most of us do not have the luxury of being professional census takers, we must be extra careful not to invalidate our poll/s.

Though amateur polls may be somewhat inaccurate due to their small number of responders, with no other factors which distort or invalidate the poll, they are far better than nothing. The only way they would be bested is if a poll asking the same question/s had a far higher number of responders, and also had no other factors which distorted or invalidated the poll. Another way to distort poll results is using loaded language. For example, using pornographic terms in a poll on sex. All polls must use neutral language. For instance, only those who support abortion in most or all circumstances prefer the term pro-choice. Only those who oppose abortion in most or all circumstances prefer the term pro-life. So, both of those terms must be avoided in polls on abortion.

During a surprise survey over the wire, I was simply quizzed as to the circumstances wherein I did or did not approve of abortion, which determined exactly where I stood. Widespread surveys incorporating both landlines and cellphones would be highly accurate; apparently the only real inaccuracy being the exclusion of Amish and homeless people, who lack telephones. Perhaps highly intelligent people who use faulty polls and statistics are being purposely dishonest. Another example of poor poll taking are the conclusions about sociopathy based on interviews conducted by psychiatrist Robert Hare, of persons who were likely sociopaths, due to their extensive history of brutal crime. He undoubtedly came to some correct conclusions, such as that sociopaths are pathological liars and do not feel guilt.

However, since his interviews were predominantly on male prisoners, his studies falsely conclude that sociopaths are predominantly male. He also falsely concluded that sociopaths are far more likely to be substance abusers and exhibit impulsive behavior, since those are two major factors that land men in jail. And since his interviews were optional, his studies falsely suggest that sociopaths are predominantly outgoing, since standoffish persons would generally avoid interviews. Some who quote statistics only quote numbers, which by itself is meaningless. For example, noting that there are more car accidents and fatalities than motorcycle mishaps. But percentages reveal that motorcyclists are over 20 times more likely to have a serious accident or die in a crash.

Others may not know what percentages are truly high or low. For example, a boss feels that employees are purposely calling in sick on Friday mornings to get three-day weekends. He then complains “People call in sick on Friday 20% of the time!” But five-day workweeks actually show that employees are not abusing their sick days. Some people have both the statistics and their percentages, such as knowing that certain areas with high percentages of Christian believers have higher crime rates than certain areas with low percentages of Christian believers. But to conclude that Christianity causes crime would be to completely misconstrue the data. We must additionally verify that there is a correlation between one specific characteristic and its percentage results with corroborating information.

OR we must seek another factor to explain our poll results and thereby revise the poll accordingly OR make a much different poll based on an inventory of different characteristics. Before I conclude, here is a recap and summary of what to avoid: 1) Don’t judge things based only on your own personal experiences or only anecdotal experiences of a few people. This information is nearly worthless. Rather, we must evaluate the experiences of over a hundred people. And generally, statistics based on several thousand individuals are most accurate than those based on a couple hundred, statistics based on over a million are more accurate than several thousand, and so forth. Numbers increase accuracy.

2~ Data on the number of occurrences of something must include the percentage of times it occurs. And we must know if a certain percentage is truly high, low, or average, based on additional information. 3) Don’t turn your poll into an either/or fallacy. If there are more than two legitimate responses to a question, provide an additional option or options. 4) Polls must be anonymous; poll takers must not know how others voted beforehand, and pollsters must not use loaded language, so that poll takers are not dissuaded from being truthful. 5) Unless you only want statistics from one people group, make sure that every people group is fairly represented in the survey.

6~ All polls which people discover using search engines, and those whose subject people specialize in before deciding to take them, are very inaccurate, due to naturally excluding those who don’t fit the expected poll response. 7) We must understand cause and effect, and not make a false correlation between various aspects of our data. Minus the aforementioned barriers to proper conclusions, all statistics based on largescale polls, such as those linking lung cancer to smoking, and crime percentages by race, are infallibly correct. Soooooooooooo……… POLL ON.

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Brain Opening Quiz

Here is a second test based on diverse and well-established facts about our world. No trick questions. Tricky, but legit. Just answer to the best of your ability to test your knowledge of reality. If you first want to fetch a pencil and paper, please do. The answers appear after question seventeen. Here goes:

1~ What is the most common bird on Earth?: common grackles, crows, ivory-billed woodpeckers, pigeons, red-billed queleas, Quetzalcoatluses, or robins.

2~ The Canary Islands were named after what animal?: canaries, canary rockfish, canned worms, cape weavers (a south African bird), dogs, or yellow warblers.

3~ What is behind most power outages in the United States?: bad outlets, bad wiring, ghosts, hackers, sabotage, squirrels, or water.

4~ What was the original primary use of sunglasses?

5~ If all the platinum on Earth was made into one giant cube, how big would it be? Make a rough estimate.

6~ What is the most expensive material on Earth?: antimatter, Californium, dark matter, diamonds, Iranian Beluga caviar, platinum, or rubies.

7~ What people group first started an anti-smoking and anti-tobacco campaign?: Californians, doctors, ministers, Nazis, nuns, scientists, or whiskey distillers.

8~ How many muscles are in your fingers?: 0, 1, 2, 5, 10, 14, or 15.

9~ Around what percentage of people have eaten insects?

10~ What type of animal is known as the world’s oldest? And about how old?

11~ What is the largest desert on Earth?: the Antarctic Desert, Arabian Desert, Gobi Desert, Mojave Desert, or Sahara Desert.

12~ The average global temperature on Mars in Fahrenheit is?: -100, -81, 0, 32, 53, 70, or + 87.

13~ What is the hardest substance on Earth?

14~ What did the name of the city of Chicago, Illinois originally mean?: Chicanos, great lake, great river, Indian tribe, onions, wind, or windy.

15~ What are the most powerful objects in the known universe?: hydrogen bombs, magnetars, quasars, suns, supermassive black holes, supernovas, or volcanoes.

16~ What was the first full book to come off Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press in the 1450s?

17~ Have UFOs been officially confirmed to exist about Earth, just officially confirmed far in space, or is there no confirmation of any UFOs?

ANSWERS:

1a The red-billed quelea; several billion in sub-Saharan Africa.

2a T name comes from the Latin Canarie Insulae, meaning “island of dogs.”

3a Squirrels, documented by the American Public Power Association.

4a So that Chinese judges could hide their facial expressions in court.

5a A 25 foot or 7.6 meter cube. Were you close?

6a Antimatter, estimated at 62 trillion dollars per gram.

7a The Nazis, who had several such campaigns.

8a There are no muscles in your fingers; their function is controlled by muscles in your palms.

9a Nearly 100%, as many types of food contain insect particles, which add up to numerous insects over the course of years.

10a Ming the clam, found off the coast of Iceland, was estimated to be 507 years old.

11a The Antarctic Desert: 5.4 million square miles.

12a Minus 81. Looks can be deceiving.

13a Graphene, a man-made material used in the aerospace industry. It surpasses diamonds, the hardest *natural* substance, by a long shot.

14a It came from the Indian word shikaakwa, meaning smelly onion.

15a Quasars, which are energy jets trillions of times as massive as our sun, and powered by supermassive black holes.

16a The Gutenberg Bible, a Latin copy of the Bible, in 1455.

17a Various UFO types have been officially confirmed about Earth, and videotaped. This does NOT necessitate space aliens. They are just unidentified flying objects.

This ends my quiz, which should have been humbling. Don’t trust my answers. Look them up yourself. The philosopher Socrates, born circa 470 BC, was considered the most knowledgeable man of his era. Instead of boasting, he is said to have stated “I know that I know nothing.” So do NOT be smug in any of your beliefs or dismissive of those of others. And do NOT just follow popular opinion. Though the facts I have presented are relatively trivial, many facts of utmost importance have been obfuscated by society’s lies. In fact, EVERYBODY can be dead wrong. “Let God be true, but every man a liar”—-Romans 3:4. So please think for yourself!

Problems Made Simple

Great news! Though a popular idea is that our world is full of problems, it only amounts to one single problem. That is, it lacks TRUTH. Others say “All you need is love.” That’s right but totally misleading. The reason is that society at large has no idea what love is. Many people’s concept of love is as far from reality as Pluto is far away from Earth. People think that always helping someone get immediate pleasure is love, and whenever someone hampers your immediate pleasure, it’s lack of love or hate. A good example that disproves this is heroin abuse. Though giving a most intense pleasure, that is always far outweighed by many extremely painful cravings and withdrawals. It destroys the person completely.

Most people understand stuff like that, but ignore how their words and actions or lack thereof will affect themselves or others years later. Other people may not understand that though their behavior helps themselves and their acquaintances, unknown others may be hurt by those behaviors. Yet others may not understand how so-called love and progress will harm society several generations down the road. Most do not understand that prioritizing happiness instead of sacrifice will lead to unhappiness in a next life.

So my objective is speaking the hard truth. And I see truth and love as virtually the same thing: Love being Truth and Truth being Love. However, I focus on the truth facet of the equation since love has been prostituted into a big heart shaped bowl of diarrhea. On the contrary, the concept of truth can be easily understood, as everyone understands that two and two make four. And you cannot be loving before first being truthful.

Now here are sources that lack truth: First, television. There’s a reason it’s called the idiot box. It peddles bags of lies. So does the radio. Newspapers and magazines often have no more truth than toilet paper and are just as distorted with filth. Some books are good; many are trash. And I wouldn’t trust what schools and universities have to say unless they’re teaching something that cannot be distorted, like pure mathematics. They often engage in brainwashing. Your parents and grandparents can be fine sources of truth, and you should honor them. But however well-meaning they are, they could be hoodwinked by those unreliable and corrupt sources of information.

***Now I have a shortcut to finding truth. I declare that every single idea without exception that was not popular in some circle before 1900 is automatically wrong. Sometimes we must go back before 1700 to find the truth. And sometimes we must go back before 1300 for the truth. That’s because the human body, human brain, and human spirit: our nature, has remained unchanged for eons. Therefore, Modernism is wrong de facto. The Dark Ages were not the Middle Ages. We’re headed into the Dark Ages right now.

Humans have been on Earth for a very long time, with plenty of opportunities for great thinkers to gather enough truth to make the world go around. And numerous great civilizations arose. So, we should know history. However, the history that schools and the media teach is either woefully incomplete, irrelevant, terribly distorted, or an outright lie. We must either find books that date before 1960, those before 1900, and ancient works, or scour the Internet for information. That’s because the Internet is the only modern source of information that is not unfairly censored across the board. Since modern society objects to my proposition, I will reiterate common contentions which support Modernism, and briefly answer each one here:

Contention 1: “Our world is far better because of machines, life-saving medicines, and tools of communication.” Yet machines have put millions out of work, while cars have crippled millions while polluting the air. With people living longer through medicines, this will prevent countless others to even be born, since our world has limited space. And people are far more distant than in yesteryear; many don’t even have one friend, despite our tools of communication.

Contention 2: “Throughout history women were treated like garbage.” This is little more than an outright lie. And in the rare cases where women were mistreated, men were treated even worse.

Contention 3: “Slavery and torture were everywhere.” This is a wild exaggeration. Also, some slavery was justified, because it was a punishment for criminals, where societies lacked prisons. And slavery is still widespread in third world countries today, while torture continues. And in addition we have a new type of slavery and torture today: hard drug addiction. Certain drugs lead to absolute mental and physical torture. This torture lasts far longer than the typical medieval torture.

Contention 4: “Great scientific advancements have replaced a world of harmful superstition and ignorance.” Yet actually, most scientific advancements are only advancements in trivial knowledge. Also, when science would be highly beneficial, it is often not used due to stubbornness, fear, political correctness, or financial greed. And now, we have a completely unscientific viewpoint of men’s nature, women’s nature, the nature of the races, and human nature in general. In that way we have gone backwards. And actually, much of the ignorance and superstition of yesteryear was harmless, while harmful ignorance and superstition reign in third world countries today. For example, African medicine men now harvest body parts from albino children. And superstition is increasing in America through New Age beliefs and practices.

Contention 5: “The Holy Spirit slowly increased His operation, as humanity became more ready for it.” Yet this argument is actually a blatant contradiction of Christianity. In John 16:13 Jesus told His disciples that when the Spirit of Truth comes, He will guide them into ALL truth. That did not mean all scientific facts, or truths that we have no business knowing. He meant all truths necessary to thrive as a society. And this Holy Spirit came upon those disciples in Acts chapter 2. That was 2,000 years ago. And by going back to the *very* beginning, that should end all argument for so-called advancement. That’s because it is illogical for our Creator to have failed to give the original humans what was necessary for them to thrive, or to lie to them about what was needed.

Regardless what, our world is certainly not advancing for any species but our own. In fact, many species of animals and plants have been WIPED OFF the FACE of the EARTH by ARROGANT HOMO SAPIENS. And today there are perverted sociopaths who actually film animal torture for kicks. And for those who don’t have the heart to care about others, they should consider that we now have the technology to wipe ourselves off the face of our planet with nuclear bombs. TALK ABOUT PROGRESS (sarcasm). So, repudiate today’s one big problem: Modernism, and do everything to grasp the truth. No matter the problem, no matter the issue, Truth is the one and only path to take.

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Philosophy 2: Ideas We Must Consider

{ Natural VS. Unnatural?: Proclaiming that the natural should always take precedence over the unnatural is an antiquated, unsupportable idea. First, nothing can be truly unnatural. Since nature encompasses all of existence, everything that exists is automatically part of nature. Suppose that everything that wasn’t *originally* part of nature should be considered unnatural, and therefore wrong. That would condemn wholesome and beneficial things such as glasses, hearing aids, medicine, organ transplants, prosthetic limbs, and most machines. Even beaver’s dams, beehives, bird’s nests, hornet’s nests, and termite mounds, let alone houses and skyscrapers, would be unnatural, since they are all designed to seek shelter from nature and therefore defy it.

Also, “natural” life forms such as the HIV virus are logically considered enemies to attack, not something that should thrive. So natural trumping unnatural postulations must be discarded, unless we mean what benefits nature overall verses what harms nature overall. Then it should be foundational. So instead, we must define and formulate that everything is governed by universal laws, discover what they are, and live accordingly. Neither must we acrimoniously believe that we have mastered Nature or humanity’s disordered desires. We must be grounded in reality, never acquiescing to wishful thinking or relying on others to behave as expected. Everything should be based on the Universal Order, and geared toward what is best for everything around us as a whole. This principle unifies every subject that I cover.}

{ Genetic Reasoning (or Origin) VS. Genetic Fallacy: Genetic fallacy is misappropriating any position or phenomenon solely in terms of its origin, and dismissing it summarily. Furthermore, it is fallacious to either endorse or condemn an idea based on past rather than present merits or demerits, unless it past somehow effects its present value. Genetic fallacy occurs whenever an idea is evaluated based upon *irrelevant* history. Some examples of fallacious reasoning are: someone is judged by how they acted at age three, someone’s parents taught them this or that, so they assume it must be true, and assuming that a credible source is *always* true, while an un-credible source is *always* false.

However, genetic fallacy is only committed when someone dismisses another’s position based on its origin alone. Genetic reasoning is not fallacious when evaluating someone’s idea based on that person’s overall background or the overall background of that idea. Someone’s ideas are ALWAYS influenced by others and the outlook of those people. We don’t gather grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles. And fountains do not send forth both fresh water and sewage; neither do apple trees bear oranges. Therefore, genetic reasoning is an important premise of mine; please remember this.}

{ Compromise Fallacy, Point/Counterpoint, Persuasive Writing: The compromise fallacy (or golden mean fallacy, grey fallacy, or fallacy of moderation) is an assertion that the most valid conclusion is one that reflects the best compromise between two competing arguments, and “extremes” are always wrong. However, many who insist that others must compromise refuse to compromise. Secondly, this fallacy allows any position of compromise to be challenged by deceptively presenting another more radical position to oppose the one you disagree with, forcing the middle ground closer to your desired position. Most importantly, sometimes only extremes are acceptable. For example, shooting dope in any quantity is always wrong.

There is a trend of having two opposing viewpoints presented and explained in a book to supposedly be fair and honest. However, by presenting both black and white, we get grey. Now if someone who is undecided on an issue (in the grey zone) reads the book, how can that help them decide instead of just giving more greyness? I see the value in reading a debate book, where two men argue an issue, because one man often does a better job of arguing his point. But this doesn’t happen when purposely trying to make both sides seem equally viable. So I only discuss issues I’m passionate about. Using persuasive writing, I make an argument to support a particular viewpoint or position, then present a clear stand and follow up with supporting facts and examples.}

{ Logic: Logic is the criteria for valid conclusions, principles of reasoning, science of correct reasoning, rational deduction, and something that convinces or proves. In other words, a complex way of saying common sense. Whereas common sense takes the most basic forms, such as when it is twenty below zero, we conclude that it won’t rain, logic often takes the form of two premises and a conclusion. Example: if there’s a quarter in my hand, and that hand is in my pocket, concluding that there’s a quarter in my pocket is simple logic. Even with complicated examples of logic, such as the Pythagorean theorem, valid premises always have an inescapable conclusion.

Many people, realizing that their position is illogical, claim that “God is greater than logic.” Yet that’s like saying “God is greater than common sense.” If there is a god, the most complex logic would be to him as simple common sense. So you measure the outside of a door; it’s 2 meters tall. I wouldn’t open the door to measure its other side. Yet someone may say “The other side could be three meters tall; with God it is possible.” Despite the temptation of wringing the person’s neck, I would simply avoid such unreasonable people. For Christian believers, the Christian god supposedly cannot lie or deceive. If he was outside of logic, he would be a crook.

In fact, EVERYTHING is either logical, or illogical and therefore automatically false. Being unable to determine something does not create a third possibility. The necessary information to decide exists somewhere. Since the nonreligious cannot use an Appeal to Heaven fallacy, when their position is illogical and they won’t concede, they may change the subject, make personal attacks instead, claim that only science is valid, or cut off dialogue completely.

Regardless, logic must replace the platitude “You never know until you try.” We must not try things that are extremely harmful or will likely waste precious time and/or resources. We must focus on what is likely to produce desirable results; applying logic helps achieve this goal. If we use persuasive argumentation which demonstrates superior logic, others should concede their position and adopt our better one. And vice versa.