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  1. Everyone experiences time but can't describe it. We can measure it but because it is always present we don't perceive it. So with my techniques I am able to qualify the quantity of measured time. You are correct in stating that it doesn't exist. Since for something to exist it has to come onto existence and at some point crease to exist. This may not be true of time. A few years back I posted that I feel like a mad scientist. A friend said you're a scientist but I don't know what kind. That saying may make more sense when you decide not to be present. I am glad that I could share the post with you. Hopefully it make a bit more sense than my explanations. I just realised that for me Astrology words numbers and time aren't separate categories. Bit all art of meanings that describe reality. Thank you I wouldn't have made that connection without your post. Or at least not as quickly .
  2. @Pioneer1 no problem, ignorance can be bliss
  3. @ProfD thank you @Pioneer1 I think history proves my position towards advocates , who are not the only type of leaders in the black populace of the usa, is not theory but fact. And, what I suggested for blacks/Native Americans/Whites/ Modern immigrants is their current situation, not any action ahead. And, I didn't rank black leaders by any definitions of effectiveness, but ranked them in terms of their style, which is different based on time or strategy in the usa.
  4. @Troy @ProfD @Pioneer1 the key is what separate black leaders in the past from today. Sharpton is a leader, Obama is a leader, but all of these people are employees. The key to Colonel Tye to MAlcolm X is that for most of the 250 years of usa history and most of the 500 years since the white european colonies in the modernly called american continent, black leaders were unpaid financially disconnected advocates. They never made money, didn't have any money to make, and always had a hill to climb whether violently or nonviolently with whites, which usually meant they died in terms of agenda, unhappy. Post 1960s, the Black advocates were killed or stymied and the Black elected official came to be the primary leadership in the black populace of the usa today. Modernity has more black, female, asian, latino, native american elected officials and yet, blacks, women, latinos, native americans don't have advocacy in the government. Sequentially, the styles are very different. Malcolm side MLK jr side Fannie Lu Maher were the last era of a majority of black leaders as advocates for black folk. No money in the advocacy, no payment in the position. Pure what do black people need. And whether it was through violence like Nat Turner or demographic identity like Marcus Garvey or all the various other movements through the centuries, the advocates always were thinking about black betterment. Sharpton had or has a show. It doesn't make him corrupt but it is different. If you are going to be an advocate for black people, you can't be employed by whites or financed by whites of employed or financed by the usa government which primary agenda is the betterment of the white populace in the usa. Regardless of what non white fiscal wealth or opportunities arise. And all those who are financed by whites, ala a thurgood marshall/Sharpton/Obama/david dinkins have impotencies. But all those who are in the system ala Adam clayton powell, can't advocate for black in the system . Adam Clayton powell fr, great acts in harlem happened before he was an elected official. Once an elected official he was impotent, but the reason isn't negative, simply structural. Government in the usa is controlled by lobbies. What is the point? Lobbies pay to get the laws they want. Who has the money but whites. Black success tends to be financially opposed by most lobbies , but the reason is even, cause most lobbies are white and their white financier is more than likely making money through suffering in the black populace. So, I restate all to say, No black leader today is like black leaders in the past, but that is because the past demanded/allowed for advocacy by Blacks leaders as a primary tool. The primary tool for black leadership in the usa today is bureaucratic activity. Today, a black leader can want advocacy but usually operates within the bureaucracy so they never have a black agenda in their role. And I think the black populace in the usa, especially the descended of enslaved, wants their cake and eat it too. And the reason is many Black DOSers in the USA want the Black community to grow and thrive while they also want the USA to be this land of individuals. and that is a very hard thing to achieve. And the reason it is hard isn't negatives but truth. What the Native American needs, even for those that do not want, in the USA is to the detriment of all others in the usa. I rephrase, Native Americans should be given large tracts of land back all over the usa plus tons of back owed money. But that can't happen unless everyone else takes a financial and communal loss. What Black Descended of Enslaved needs, even if they do not want, in the USA is to the detriment of all others. I rephrase, Black DOSers need what they have been denied by white violence constantly and that is their own governing space, along side like the native american , a ton of back pay. What Whites want, not need, in the usa is to the detriment of all others, but is historically the sole point of why the usa was created. I rephrase, The usa wasn't created for everyone to benefit or for each individual to have, the USA was created for a set of white europeans descended from various fiscal poor of continental europe , to fiscally succeed no matter how. What modern immigrants want, they don't need as well, is to the detriment of all others and potentially all humanity. I rephrase, what they want is a country that will allow a stranger to come in and have opportunities or advantages said stranger doesn't have where they come from, and to embrace their children as part of the country for no other reason than being a human being. These four paths do not work together. Thus all the populaces in the usa are being poorl led today. None of the leaders can satisfy all four paths through the bureaucracy of the usa government

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