I Love Writing

When I am down or confused I write. I do not live to write, I write to live, it is such an integral part of my being. Writing and being able to use words with precision, being able to make something understandable to others is a very deep blessing. It allows me to go beyond myself.

I believe I am finding more reason to write and that is a good thing. Because there is so much to talk about. Let us begin with some scary things. Lets talk about trends that will come to the wrong answers.

Trend 1 - The drive towards direct democracy. There is most definitely a trend away from representational government. Look, it should be obvious that I support the Occupy movement's call to end corruption and take more control over our country; but, direct democracy will not work. The problem with direct democracy is that you cannot pass meaningful legislation. Everything gets dumbed down and the bureaucrats can make any decisions they want. Representational government works the best; but, it requires only voting for people of integrity more than voting for how they will vote on specific bills.

Trend 2 - Anti-Israel attitudes. Israel is not the cause of all the worlds problems and jewish people are not the world's enemy. Let's remember why Israel was given nationhood again. Firstly, wherever Jewish people went outside of Israel they were persecuted, the holocaust merely being the worst of it. Whole towns of Jews in France were wiped out by the French prior to World War II. We will see people continue to focus on corrupt Israel by pointing out the corruption of individual Jews. Guess what, go back a post or two and read what I wrote about the approach. There are crooks in the NYPD and nobody is calling for the end of them.

Trend 3 - The drive to end fractional currency. The truth is that for every real dollar that exists, a bank can lend out ten. Yes that is true, it is the whole concept of loans or future payments. Money is nothing more than a promise and it allows many wonderful things to happen, the mutual exchange of promises is the heart and soul of every contract. It only works if people are prevented from borrowing more than is reasonable to expect them to be able to pay. The same holds true for governments. The government has passed rules regulating the loaning of money; however, it does not follow it's own guidelines and merely prints more money making all the existing money less valuable. Currency needs to be based on a solid foundation (no not just gold, percentage of population working plus mineral wealth minus the entitlements that it gives to it's people or some such formula); however, we still need to be able to borrow.

Trend 4 - A coming catastrophe or mind awakening experience. Watch out for both. WE are not ready to become spiritually aware and won't be until we are dead. As for the catastrophe, yes and no. The world is not going to end, everybody doesn't die off. We are here for a reason and the reason will complete itself. I believe in God and Christ and I read the book better than the idiot that said the world was going to end. Okay, for those who wish to read my new blog here is the link, "Sundays at 5". I am telling everyone that this is exclusively about the bible so if you don't like it when I write about religion, don't follow the link.

Trend 5 - Telling people that we are merely flesh machines and that we cannot know reality. No, you matter, people are the most important thing in the universe, we are the consciousness of the universe. You can know reality, you can make valid observations and you can understand the world, it just takes the effort to do so and a willingness to not let what you want to be true get in the way of what appears to be true.

Trend 6 - The Devil is not in the detail. The Devil hates the truth and therefore he hates the details, that is how deceit rather than straight out lies work. There are no outliers, there are only people. 99% is not us, 100% is us. The problem is not that 1% have more than you, the problem is corruption. Most people get this, that is why capitalism works the best. But, it only works the best when corruption is addressed and people are shown that honesty works better and that requires honesty from all. Yes, everyone makes mistakes. I am not talking about perfection, I am talking about rewarding good and not bad behavior.