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I heard a quote that if you redistributed the world's wealth. The richest 1% would have it back in three generations. You give any group drugs or alcohol they are going to unravel. I was in Zurich in the late 90's. There were about 100 heroin junkies in the park. I had never seen that before and Switzerland is a small country. Again no race has a monopoly on greatness or stupidity.

I heard a quote that if you redistributed the world's wealth. The richest 1% would have it back in three generations. You give any group drugs or alcohol they are going to unravel. I was in Zurich in the late 90's. There were about 100 heroin junkies in the park. I had never seen that before and Switzerland is a small country. Again no race has q monopoly on greatness or stupidity.

This is a nice bit of reasoning

Pioneer I think it is important to look at power and human nature. I think it is also important to develops a world view. That extends beyond your neighborhood. I think if you have a access to books and are thirsty you can be on par with a college grad. Mr Wilson said to don't judge people to be less intelligent if they talk slow.

I think intelligence is evenly distributed through the races. Don't count out criminals. Some criminals are very intelligent. There was a drug syndicate in Detroit in the 80's it was called Crime Inc. They ended being in the Wall Street Journal. The had an organization structure runners could move up if they didn't get killed by the competition, greed or the drugs. I think at one point they were more profitable than GM. I believe going to school requires persistence. Hard work generally trumps intelligence. I believe if you learn the language or margin of a subject it becomes less mysterious. Which is part of the reason I like to think very simply about things. You may be right I am just sharing my thoughts. Or we could both be right in our separate worlds. I don't think it is easy to change things. Power is not that happy to give up power. Which is why a lot of people got shot in the drug wars. I think most things come down to greed, money, and desire.

I think the real issue is class and wealth, race is a smoke screen. King and X were killed after they were expanding their audience. For King it was the garbage strike and for. X it was dropping the white devil after going to Mecca. I think certain policies or laws fall unevenly on the population. Gambling cigarette and alcohol tax are going to fall more in poorer people. Since these purchases are a larger share if their income. Which is a regressive tax. Fair is everyone pays the same percentage. Progressive is the wealthier pay more.

Is it Genocide or assisted Suicide?

There's no need to eradicate a customer. Most supplier don't eradicate their customers as a business strategy. Cigarette, coffee and drug dealers are culling the population but I wouldn't call it genocide.

Two is a word a relationship a concept it is not a real thing. Okay what is two made of, wn infinite number of numbers. What real thing is made of infinite items.

I would disagree with your equation you are talking about a concept. X + Y = 4 = 2 + 2 2 people + 2 people = 4 people is a statement about reality. You can have any fraction in the concept and it is valid. You can't have a fractional person in reality.

Troy was the link to long to read? I'll paraphrase since your mind is the interface between you and the world. And the mind doesn't exist in the physical world. I am assuming that only physical thinks reside in the physical world. So there us mo reality for the individual outside of memory and sense perception. Numbers and colors may not be real. You can see two items but you can't see two, it is a relationship between objects in a set. Things are colored but the color is not independent if the object.

Ha ha well the Nobel Brothers are probably responsible for more deaths than any other siblings.

No I hadn't read the post yet.

My guess Kerry's slip is no slip. War has to be paid for, what resource does Syria possess. Cynique The President is The Alpha Male. Remember when he was collecting the Nobel Prize and joking about sending troops to war. He is very very clever.

Pioneer I couldn't help thinking this sounds like a Harvard Business School case study. You have a product that is dangerous. Who is our target audience. What media channels influence them. What's are marketing plan. How about a strategic product placement. Veil it so it's not obvious. Sounds good or we can out it all down to dollars instead of an insidious plan. I don't think "White" people gave a plan to exterminate black people. What would be the benefit to them. I think it's more likely multi billionaires would just leave earth and colonize another planet. Which isn't easy either. Just more likely. What did Richard Pryor say, there are no black people in Star Wars.

Cynique interesting I was struck by the fact that explosions in action movies are male orgasms. I forgot who said it,I think it was a woman, "Violence is the new sex" As an aside typing "violence is the new sex, turned up four pages of mostly the same links. A net can save you from falling. A web is meant to capture prey.

I read a book that said that God created us to learn. Kind of like having kids, they teach you about you. I think you definitely matter and you want to have an effect. People are listening for a reason, you have a corner for a reason

Chaos is an interesting word. It could be that the universe isn't predictable but it isn't random.

Cynique - I often wonder why people can't see themselves, myself included. On second thought it makes sense. You are the only person to not to see your face. The world needs to make sense and be right. If you are not good it's best to be delusional until your breakthrough.

Troy - The reason I mentioned overeating was a reaction to your statement. We can tell motivation by actions, that is a behaviorist position. The only difference is behaviorists don't pay attention to motive on behavior.

Cynique - Before I read your post I thought Troy was using an alias in his forums. Each forum had its on alias. Cynique people watch you like they watch tv.

Thank you

Cynique - What I find interesting is the strength of believe in Religion and the attempt to reframe life according to the precepts of a religious avatar/guide/guru. Whom to me appears as Super Man. While in the rest of your life you are trying to make sense understand or deal with what happens. I was going to say Buddhism is a philosophy but so are the other ways of organizing your life.

Cynique - I'll respond to your post over the next few hours. Fairh had to be blind otherwise it is fact. And religion rest or require you to accept stories that are divergent from day - to - day reality. I also believe people need a philosophy/schema/probability function model of "reality" The reason is that most people like the world to be rational. The mind requires order and if none exist it will create it. Most of what we call the world exists only in the mind. At most points in your life your memories are longer than the instance of now. So your current thoughts are a function of your memory. However memory is very plastic. Your mind can barely distinguish between a memory and an occurrence. You could argue that the body knows the difference. Although I don't think it's a convincing argument

Troy - Below is a link. There are some mathematicians who believe numbers were created by the human mind. You assumption about the reality of numbers is not a position, held by all mathematicians. In fact you may find the philosophy of mathematics an interesting topic. Embodied mind theories Embodied mind theories hold that mathematical thought is a natural outgrowth of the human cognitive apparatus which finds itself in our physical universe. For example, the abstract concept of number springs from the experience of counting discrete objects. It is held that mathematics is not universal and does not exist in any real sense, other than in human brains. Humans construct, but do not discover, mathematics. With this view, the physical universe can thus be seen as the ultimate foundation of mathematics: it guided the evolution of the brain and later determined which questions this brain would find worthy of investigation. However, the human mind has no special claim on reality or approaches to it built out of math. If such constructs as Euler's identity are true then they are true as a map of the human mind and cognition. Embodied mind theorists thus explain the effectiveness of mathematics—mathematics was constructed by the brain in order to be effective in this universe. The most accessible, famous, and infamous treatment of this perspective is Where Mathematics Comes From, by George Lakoff and Rafael E. Núñez. In addition, mathematician Keith Devlin has investigated similar concepts with his book The Math Instinct. For more on the philosophical ideas that inspired this perspective, see cognitive science of mathematics.