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His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble Philosopher

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May 18, 2013, 11:48:38 AM5/18/13
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On May 17, 7:44 pm, Neolibertarian <cognac...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> <e8275c5d-0692-49fe-b26c-40fe8cd80...@s18g2000yqg.googlegroups.com>,
> "His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble Philosopher"
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> > > In the end, you're merely repeating something you thought you heard. A
> > > dreary fantasy you use to excuse yourself from judgement.
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> > > You think resources /should/ be running out; that the earth is
> > > dangerously overcrowded and mankind is doomed to disaster, so it
> > > therefore /must/ be so.
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> > > Okay, I'm game. My fantasies aren't hardened. I'm willing to learn. Show
> > > me your proof.
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> > OK, I shall proceed to provide proof while trimming this long post for
> > the benefit of the reader. Yes, it's all for the reader. That's not
> > the average idiot who watches the Fox news. It's a discerning,
> > cultured, unbiased, enlightenedbeingwho can say I'm right.
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> > Anyway here are the facts:
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> > 15 Depressing Facts About The Coming Water Crisis
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> > "America must spend $255 billion in the next five years to prevent
> > deterioration of water infrastructure. We plan to spend half that
> > amount."
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> > Read more:
> >http://www.businessinsider.com/15-facts-about-the-coming-water-crisis...
> > p=1#ixzz2TZMI7guv
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> This article is three years old, so actual links to the facts don't
> exist anymore. Sorry. This may come as a surprise to you, but proof
> requires data and facts.
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> Of the data which still exists, it appears that by 2050 or so there are
> relatively few populations which will have physical shortages of water.
> Some might.
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> Clearly there's no crisis coming to the Northern Hemisphere.

I understand, fuck the South. The problem is the South will emigrate
to the North as the shortages and war ravage the land. The North
already has a crisis with immigration so you go and figure.

Perhaps you'll agree with me that a REVOLUTION is necessary for the
South. Nothing like Chavez, just something smart that uses PREVENTION
as the first strategy. Actually we may use some of the water
technologies put in place by Israel. They collect the rain and make
the kibbutz bloom in the desert. Or is it something you only want for
yourself?

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> The largest groups to be effected (mostly sometime in the future) are
> comprised of the basket-case dictators and central planners (Central
> Africa, Southern Asia, Peru and Bolivia) which threaten to further
> damage their internal economies to the point they can no longer afford
> water infrastructures necessary to sustain their citizenry.
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> Water isn't free, nor has it generally been free throughout much of
> man's history.

Brazil is not a dictatorship and it accounts for the most
deforestation in the world. If America is falling short in planning
imagine the South.

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> These projected shortages aren't really so much a function of population
> as tragic incompetence.

And CORRUPTION, such as here in Miami Beach. That's even more sad than
incompetence. Everybody trying to make a buck without concern for the
world. The predator only cares about himself and his family. They
steal a few million bucks in Brazil and then come here. Then they mix
with the Jews, the Cubans, the Venezuelans, and everybody else, and
make this fortress called Millionaire's Row their first row
accommodation to look at the ocean. Waiting, for the next big
hurricane to hit the area. Yes, it's coming.

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> Physical water shortages in places like North Africa and the Middle East
> can come as no surprise to anyone, since water shortages have been
> occurring there since the days of Alexander the Great.
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> As stated in an earlier post: bringing the fruits of industrialism (such
> as sophisticated medical care, disease prevention and cheap food) to
> unindustrialized cultures and societies is a recipe for disaster.

I think bringing Western Culture to Africa is a disaster as a whole.
They are OK without Jesus and cars.

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> But a necessary disaster, if things are ever going to get better.

Yeah, a necessary disaster. Was the Holocaust necessary?

Perhaps it was for the birth of the State of Israel. Everything has a
positive side. In a twist of fate, they owe a lot to Hitler.
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> > Oh gee, we are deep shit! They are rather pouring money down the drain
> > in "beautifying cities" with wild grass. It took a lot of labor and
> > inconvenience to create those corner triangles where the grass grows
> > wild and the water gets stuck and breeds mosquitoes.
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> > But water, there's little plan for clean water.
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> Why would you claim that? The article you linked to paints a decidedly
> different picture. There is much planning for improving water supplies
> and infrastructure evident. $Billions and $billions arebeingspent all
> over the world, according to your source. These organizations, providing
> the information and data for the article, just don't think it's /enough/.
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> Different.

You must have missed this:

"A shortage of water resources could spell increased conflicts in the
future. Population growth will make the problem worse. So will climate
change. As the global economy grows, so will its thirst. Many more
conflicts lie just over the horizon." -- Ban Ki-Moon

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/15-facts-about-the-coming-water-crisis-2010-3?op=1#ixzz2TeuXGoGG

His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble Philosopher

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May 19, 2013, 12:28:35 PM5/19/13
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On May 19, 4:40 am, x <x...@x.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 18 May 2013 10:48:00 -0700, His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey,
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> > On May 17, 3:02 am, x <x...@x.org> wrote:
> >> On Fri, 17 May 2013 08:13:35 +0200, liaM wrote:
> >> > Le 17/05/2013 02:54, His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble
> >> > Philosopher a écrit :
> >> >> On May 16, 7:41 pm, liaM<cud...@mindless.com> wrote:
> >> >>> Le 5/17/2013 1:01 AM, His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey, Most
> >> >>> Humble Philosopher a crit :
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> >> >>>> "They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other
> >> >>>> nations, caught like ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow
> >> >>>> prisoners of the splendor and travail of the Earth."
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> >> >>>> -- Henry Beston
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> >> >>>>http://www.exploratorium.edu/ifi/resources/lifescienceinquiry/
> >> doesawo...
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> >> >>>> Beautiful, just beautiful. Words to inspire the philosophers and
> >> >>>> poets alike. Oh worms, creatures who bury themselves in the
> >> >>>> ground, looking for happiness and meaning in life. They know
> >> >>>> nothing of our deceiving world. They know nothing of Republican
> >> >>>> and Democrat, Rich and Poor.
> >> >>>> They don't know about the 1%. Lucky them.
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> >> >>>> And then it closes with these motivational words:
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> >> >>>> "I think the point of this avenue of inquiry is to get people to
> >> >>>> appreciate the lives of other living things with which we share
> >> >>>> this Earth."
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> >> >>>> Yes, you may have your own views but nothing approaches the wisdom
> >> >>>> of the worm.
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> >> >>>> "I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and
> >> >>>> not enough the bad luck of the early worm."
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> >> >>>> -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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> >> >>>>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/worm.html
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> >> >>> Raising worms for protein results in something like one-fifth the
> >> >>> release of methane to the atmosphere, a good reason to switch to
> >> >>> cooking wormburgers and worm-tofu dishes. Worm farms may be a good
> >> >>> place to invest. The worm farm near where I live is looking for
> >> >>> just such investment, having proved its systems with the harvest of
> >> >>> 15 tons of food grade worms this year. There are a growing number
> >> >>> of french chefs who are offering worm and insect creations at their
> >> >>> restaurants,
> >> >>> so the future is rosy for worms resulting in a cleaner, more
> >> >>> ecologically balanced world. Someone should tell J. Robbins about
> >> >>> this !
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> >> >>> liaM (potential investors write me..)
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> >> >> That proposal has been adopted by the Revolutionary Committee in
> >> >> Exile.
> >> >> Where are our creative leaders? Why is Africa waiting to join the
> >> >> revolution? Why worms are not in the menu?
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> >> > Africa is waiting in the wings. Zimbabwe farmers are cultivating
> >> > worms reaching 20 feet at maturity yet just melt in the mouth raw and
> >> > sliced thin. Worm tartar is sure to be a world changer.
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> >> if paris says it's hot maybe it will be.
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> > Oh yes, Paris, London, New York always set the trend.
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> > Funny, they all share a Bike Sharing Program now. Hope the rest of the
> > world catches up before it's too late.
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> for a tour de world we need more bridges...

Well, our bridges don't accommodate bikes and pedestrians. We need to
change that.

Perhaps our engineers are dumb or perhaps they are corrupt. It's not
the kind of engineering we want to take to Africa.

His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble Philosopher

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May 20, 2013, 10:57:36 AM5/20/13
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On May 19, 4:37 pm, BeamMeUpScotty
<ThenDestroyEveryth...@blackhole.nebulax.com> wrote:
> On 5/19/2013 3:38 PM, His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble
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> > On May 19, 12:08 am, Neolibertarian <cognac...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>> "A shortage of water resources could spell increased conflicts in the
> >>> future. Population growth will make the problem worse. So will climate
> >>> change. As the global economy grows, so will its thirst. Many more
> >>> conflicts lie just over the horizon." -- Ban Ki-Moon
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> >> Ban Ki-Moon is a bureaucrat. He's been a bureaucrat his whole life. He's
> >> not an expert in natural resource exploitation, nor anything else.
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> >> A bureaucrat isn't expert at anything except protecting his own job.
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> >> From what I've seen, I'm not sure he could find his way to the UN
> >> building in the morning without a driver and assistants.
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> >> Bureaucrats only know three things: how to create crises, pretend
> >> they're managing them, and then how to perpetuate them into infinity.
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> > So who would rely on to save the world, the rabbi?
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> Bureaucrats screw up the peace..... and never win a war.

So the scientists do say MAN MADE CLIMATE CHANGE IS A REALITY. Who's
supposed to stir the population into action?

They are OUR leaders, elected representatives who are looking out for
us...

Or are you saying that the democratic process doesn't produce
politicians and bureaucrats that work for us? Are they a bunch of self-
serving individuals instead of the trusted public servants the
Republic was supposed to create?

Oh wait, democratic and Republican ways are technically different.
Maybe it would work if we had some sort of real democracy. My
community is full of shit and nobody gives a shit. Is someone
responsible for anything?

His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble Philosopher

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May 21, 2013, 2:22:11 PM5/21/13
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On May 21, 9:06 am, BeamMeUpScotty
<ThenDestroyEveryth...@blackhole.nebulax.com> wrote:
> On 5/20/2013 2:19 PM, His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble
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> > <ThenDestroyEveryth...@blackhole.nebulax.com> wrote:
> >> On 5/20/2013 10:54 AM, His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble
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> >> Philosopher wrote:
> >>> On May 19, 4:37 pm, BeamMeUpScotty
> >>> <ThenDestroyEveryth...@blackhole.nebulax.com> wrote:
> >>>> On 5/19/2013 3:38 PM, His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble
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> >>>> Philosopher wrote:
> >>>>> On May 19, 12:08 am, Neolibertarian <cognac...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>>>>>> "A shortage of water resources could spell increased conflicts in the
> >>>>>>> future. Population growth will make the problem worse. So will climate
> >>>>>>> change. As the global economy grows, so will its thirst. Many more
> >>>>>>> conflicts lie just over the horizon." -- Ban Ki-Moon
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> >>>>>> Ban Ki-Moon is a bureaucrat. He's been a bureaucrat his whole life. He's
> >>>>>> not an expert in natural resource exploitation, nor anything else.
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> >>>>>> A bureaucrat isn't expert at anything except protecting his own job.
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> >>>>>> From what I've seen, I'm not sure he could find his way to the UN
> >>>>>> building in the morning without a driver and assistants.
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> >>>>>> Bureaucrats only know three things: how to create crises, pretend
> >>>>>> they're managing them, and then how to perpetuate them into infinity.
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> >>>>> So who would rely on to save the world, the rabbi?
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> >>>> Bureaucrats screw up the peace.....    and never win a war.
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> >>> So the scientists do say MAN MADE CLIMATE CHANGE IS A REALITY. Who's
> >>> supposed to stir the population into action?
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> >> What action, can you change the Weather?
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> >> Human Co2 is a trace amount "of what is a trace gas" in the atmosphere....
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> >> If the earth were so fragile, then every volcanic eruption above or
> >> under the ocean that released as much or more Co2 as Humans do, would
> >> have already push the planet into another Global Warming year after year.
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> >> Are you saying there were NO volcanoes at all leading up to and during
> >> ice ages?
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> >> Wouldn't someone notice that every warming period in history coincides
> >> to be within 100 years of a major volcanic eruption?
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> >> And that ice ages are devoid of volcanic eruption?
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> >> If humans added Co2, then the atmosphere must have expanded.....
> >> correct, or the atmosphere would have to increase in pressure according
> >> to the laws of physics.
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> >> No study confirms either one.... so where is all that extra gas we added
> >> to the atmosphere.
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> >> Explain that.....
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> > You may have to argue with the scientists who confirm man made climate
> > change. They are not hard to find. The overwhelming majority do.
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> > I can't possibly explain why smoking give you lung cancer but it does.
> > CAUSE & EFFECT, you know.
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> If smoking causes cancer why doesn't every person that smokes have cancer?
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> The way I hear it, smoking increases the risk of you having cancer mybe
> someday.....  NOT that Smoking its self caused cancer.
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> The doctors can't tell you that you are smoking, so you have cancer.
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> There may be a connection to smoking and some cancer in some people.
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> But to flatly say smoking causes cancer is NOT the truth.
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> The same as you are NOT going to die in a car accident because you don't
> have a seat belt on..... the truth is that many/most people don't die by
> not wearing a seat belt, in fact only 40,000 people die in cars and they
> may be killed by actually wearing the seat belt, as easily as those NOT
> wearing one, depending on the thousands of variables.
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> All the government and the doctors are doing is "playing the odds"  and
> using the odds as an excuse to steal my individual RIGHTS, it violates
> the constitution and my freedom.
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>               *Rumination*
> #3.0.1 - Liberals seem to think "the only gun owners" with any rights
> are the criminals.....

Hey, where's my freedom to ride a bicycle or a Neighborhood Electric
Vehicle? Why the big ones are favored over the little ones, which, by
the way, fall outside the "grid" that feeds the large corporations?
Where's my freedom to be off the grid?

As for tobacco, the Tobacco Free Florida grosses me out with
commercials that portray patients dying of cancer (but never the
dangers portrayed by SUVs):

http://www.tobaccofreeflorida.com/?lang=en&gclid=COqSlqrmp7cCFZJj7Aodf3kAoQ

His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble Philosopher

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May 21, 2013, 2:30:15 PM5/21/13
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On May 19, 12:32 pm, rst9 <rst9w...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On May 19, 9:29 am, "His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble
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> > > On Sat, 18 May 2013 10:48:00 -0700, His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey,
> Government doesn't want people walking on bridges.

So people are divided by bridges, not united. What an irony.
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> > Perhaps our engineers are dumb or perhaps they are corrupt. It's not
> > the kind of engineering we want to take to Africa.
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> They are designed foe mass transportation of people, not for pleasure.

Nothing is designed for pleasure, particularly when it's free and
healthy.

His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble Philosopher

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May 23, 2013, 5:23:41 PM5/23/13
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On May 22, 3:14 pm, Phil W Lee <p...@lee-family.me.uk> wrote:
> "His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble Philosopher"
> <thetibetanmon...@gmail.com> considered Tue, 21 May 2013 11:25:06
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> ><ThenDestroyEveryth...@blackhole.nebulax.com> wrote:
> >> On 5/20/2013 2:19 PM, His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble
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> >> Philosopher wrote:
> >> > On May 20, 1:09 pm, BeamMeUpScotty
> >> > <ThenDestroyEveryth...@blackhole.nebulax.com> wrote:
> >> >> On 5/20/2013 10:54 AM, His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble
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> >> >> Philosopher wrote:
> >> >>> On May 19, 4:37 pm, BeamMeUpScotty
> >> >>> <ThenDestroyEveryth...@blackhole.nebulax.com> wrote:
> >> >>>> On 5/19/2013 3:38 PM, His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble
> >http://www.tobaccofreeflorida.com/?lang=en&gclid=COqSlqrmp7cCFZJj7Aod...
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> It would certainly be reasonable (given the deaths and injuries they
> cause) for all motor vehicle to be made carry similar types of
> explicit imagery at point of sale (but obviously of the relevant types
> of death and injury, rather than tumours and dissected lungs).

That's what I always say.

Sadly our vehicles are our sacred cows. In reality they pollute the
Planet's lungs, the very air we all --men, women and children--
inhale. I wished they could try turning on their engine in a closed
garage and see what happens.

His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble Philosopher

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On May 26, 12:19 pm, BeamMeUpScotty
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> On 5/26/2013 12:11 PM, His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble
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> > On May 25, 2:01 pm, x <x...@x.org> wrote:
> >> On Sat, 25 May 2013 08:55:41 -0700, His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey,
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> >> Most Humble Philosopher wrote:
> >>> On May 25, 11:01 am, Tim <8.tim.har...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> On May 24, 2:50 pm, "His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble
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> >>>> Philosopher" <comandante.ban...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>>>> Christians consistently chose evil over good in different blind
> >>>>> tests.
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> >>>> now, now monkey... i thought we agreed... religion is terrorism...
> >>>> there is no sense in blaming only the christians.... else as our wise
> >>>> and most humble lion/monkey King... you might be perceived as playing
> >>>> favorites... that is, after all, how all these human excuses for
> >>>> debauchery got started... wise means never making that mistake again...
> >>>> now... humble.
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> >>>> Lucifer
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> >>> True, I just want to address the people that affect me the most. Why is
> >>> God still alive after all? Because the elites keep him alive. They tell
> >>> the sheep what to believe or not to believe. Can you believe that the
> >>> Russian population was atheist and now it turns to be very religious?
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> >>> I suspect the puppet master is pulling the strings.
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> >> whoever is pulling the strings or pressing the right buttons shouldn't
> >> get so much attention as the spirits and minds of those being pressed...
> >> and the mythology over its truth or untruth, moral values etc... mythos
> >> as an art and part of the psychological inclinations in humans expression.
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> >> we are most critical of those things we are only just making into fiction
> >> or more often than not reformulating the same thing into different forms,
> >> it seems the single god as a supreme creator/ruler is attacked so much it
> >> escapes our interests except as a matter of believing or knocking belief,
> >> it escapes a more rounded scrutiny and appreciation. similar to ufo ideas
> >> that are not appreciated as a social psychological condition of our minds
> >> however the aspect of belief and disbelief is an important part of it all.
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> >> blaming the elites is an oversimplification though, in fact i'd examine
> >> it through the same lens as i examine the belief in god... to think the
> >> general human population can be blamed on elites disowns our own powers
> >> to create the elite that have power over us...it's all in our minds.....
> >> nonetheless the part in the formula we are taking is to trust authority
> >> and this creates a certain kind of vulnerability to exploitation by elite.
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> >> hth
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> > I think the elites still use god to herd the sheep. It was the origin
> > of it all in ancient Egypt and it is now. The cultural elites though
> > must be aware of the latest discoveries in archaeology and evolution.
> > Our political elites could deliver the message, or at least could stop
> > invoking god in their speeches.
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> Now they use Global Warming and the Environment and Scientific
> studies....  how revealing.
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> *The SONG REMAINS THE SAME*

Actually, I don't think the elites are doing shit for the most part.

Perhaps the Union of Concerned Scientists and a few others. They earn
huge salaries with the status quo.

Look at Germany thriving in green technologies though:

'In what is widely considered a success story for developing
renewables in the industrialised world, Germany has demonstrated that
a strong political will can kick-start and sustain a “green”
technological revolution.'

http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20100408-26431.html

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Guess who the future belongs to. ;)

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