Arguing Vs. Voting

Right or wrong, I'd rather have the right to argue than the right to vote.

Can Pop Culture Change Natural Law?

I was thinking of something that's sort of like pragmatism in a way.  I wondered if human beings could inspire God even when they inspire no one else.  Then I got to wondering something else.  If human beings can inspire God, maybe they can inspire everything else.

In the past century, the trend in pop culture has been to make things more mentally complex.  Computers are made up of complex parts, as is most technology.  And we have discovered that a lot of nature is made up of complex chemical elements.  We could go on for decades studying this stuff.  But will we get sort of tired and worn out from such mental exertion?  As we study finance more and more, creating a more complex financial system, there is some talk of reducing its complexity, particularly in the area of taxation.  If we do that, will we reduce the complexity of technology and of other scientific discoveries?  Can we maintain our knowledge that we have being able to construct computers and chemical compounds without a complex method of understanding them?  If we decide we want natural, financial, and physical laws to be simpler for us, will they be?  Can we influence that?  Did we influence these things to be complex in the first place, and will a simple preference for the simple make these things simpler as well?

Of course most people would say the very idea is ridiculous, and that natural laws are set in stone beyond human influence.  But I'm just trying to be open minded here.

Why bite the hand that feeds you?

I think a lot of people on welfare vote for big government because they don't want to bite the hand that feeds them.  But there are occassions where doing so would make sense.  If the hand that feeds you also hits you or holds you back, you might want to take your chances and get away from it.  Especailly if you favor liberty and are willing to risk security to get it.  Also if you know of another hand that can feed you better (like perhaps your own) then you might want to bite the hand that's currently feeding you.

Can God be inspired?

I wonder about our celebrity culture, and why people want to be famous.  I think in ancient China not too many people desired that accomplishment.  Perhaps the reason people want to be famous is they want to be a part of someone else's life in a way that makes them feel important.  They want to be an influence on the lives of as many others as possible.  But is this even necessary?  Why can't we be comfortable in obscurity?  Why do we need to be an influence on others?  Why do we always feel we need to leave something behind when we die?

I think it's because we forgot that we can be an influence on God.  That Roman soldier impressed Jesus with his faith, so I think we can inspire God, even though he's omnipotent and almighty.  I think he might have created us to be inspired by us.  So if only he knows of our existence, and the rest of everything we ever were on this earth vanishes without a trace, we can still know we were important, because our lives actually inspired the most important being of all.

Maybe we should forget this foolishness about achieving greatness, and just go along with the flow as best we can.  I understand having ambition, because there are things I want to do that I think would be great, but my gosh, why do we sell our souls for fame?  Why should we trash God's law just so people know who we are?  I'm speaking mostly of Kim Kardashian here.  Remember how she staged a sham marriage just so people would talk about her, and she'd get extra money to buy junk no one ever needs?  Nothing like breaking a life-long vow for something so petty.

Pendulum

If society is like a pendulum, oscillating back and forth, and you're out of step the pendulum, swinging left when it swings right, and swinging right when it swings left, you are both ahead of your time and behind the times.

The Opposite of Depression

In a nightmare world, the opposite of depression is insanity.

No Rules

When I look at a blank page or a blank canvas, I realize there are no rules.  I can be as G-rated as I want to be.