Saturday, May 29, 2010

My post on citizenship

My post drew some comments so I will add a little to the discussion. The issue of losing citizenship has nothing to do with illegal aliens, they are not citizens and cannot lose it. My concern is over having different rankings of citizens in our country. Earning additional rights.

What is being proposed by some is that you do not attain full citizenship unless you commit to some type of national service, be it military or to the community. I work for the government so I am not against national service, I am for choice. What I question is which rights will be limited to "partial" citizens. This is the heart of the matter and the threat to our liberties.

The political discussion by Lieberman, Clinton, Obama... starts with a conversation about illegal aliens, it then turns to the question of terrorists, finally it turns to the issue of what we have to do to earn citizenship. They attempt to link issues to citizenship that do not apply.

Illegals are not citizens. Foreign terrorists who obtain citizenship could always lose it, these laws will not change that. People born in this country are citizens as of right. That is the right to live somewhere. Yet, we are not free to go to other countries, our own country can refuse to let us leave. We are not free, if we are not free than we must be allowed rights or no social contract can exist with our government and it loses any right of legitimacy.

Oprah, Magic and the "Law of Attraction"

I was drinking my coffee and came across this article on Oprah's website.

Dream Boards

Oprah was a big proponent of a belief set called "The Law of Attraction"

If one reads the Rosicrucian literature, or the Masonic or even the Satanist literature you will discover that it is the same type of "magic" except the spiritual aspects are played down. It is the magic of the Kabuki Dance. You do the dance/ritual and if things work out as you want, you attribute it to the dance. If things do not go as you wanted, you continue the dance.

I was a magician when I was younger. Not a mystical one, for entertainment. I did tricks, not "magic". I learned that the trick was all about misdirection. Magicians have long sought to disprove attempts by some to prove that they could do real magic. It is because we know, it is just a trick.

The famous Satanist, Anton LaVey, was in a documentary. In the documentary he spoke about how he had worked in carnivals and would talk to the psychics that were part of the carnival. He stated that they were people who were better at reading body language and intent, he saw no psychic powers. Perhaps that is where we should start.

If you read your horoscope, which I do not, it may say that you will someone new. If you believe in it, you will look for that opportunity and are therefore more likely to find it. The horoscope did nothing. Ignoring the "spirituality" of the thing, the problem with the law of attraction is that it focuses one on the cookies of this world rather than morals, growth or even improving ones practical skills.

There is a "christian" version of this (even though it is clearly non-Christian), it is the "Name it and claim it" movement. The belief that we are here to get cookies and that if we have enough faith in the cookies we will get them.

In Haiti there are many proponents of voodoo, it follows the same format as "the law of attraction" and it didn't prevent the earthquake. We so want shortcuts that we give up our free will to the cookies. There is no "Secret" and the world is not all about you or me, it about all of us.

Creativity and Insanity

The BBC, the Queen's television, is reporting that creativity is akin to insanity. How convenient. I guess they are saying that if you are not a sheep than you are insane. Again, that is a good position for government to take.

If you are not one of the sheep that agree with what you are told then you need to be watched because you may be crazy. It is science. Don't you trust science and scientists, they are immune from bias or being bribed by the cookies of this world. If we determine you are a scientist, we must agree with you without question or we may be crazy.

Crazy or sheeple

Do not misunderstand, science does have value when truthful and not biased by personal gain. Question everything; but, do not refuse to take a stand or come to a conclusion. That is gutless and based on a want to have options as opposed to take a stand based on what you believe. Jesus said that some were neither hot nor cold so he would spit them out. Do not be gutless and driven by the wind, the cookies, be yourself and commit. Expect your choices to be met with consequences.