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The Brother that shot up all those folks in DC heard voices. Were those voices "real"? To him they were. We are machines, barely senitient, incapable of perceiving, let alone comprehending things that are unknown and perhaps unknowable. The smartest person who ever lived would be analogous to a single celled organism understanding the math required to explain general relativity. It is fun to talk about the quantum, spiritual, religious, and metaphysical world, but given our behavior the point will be moot unless we do something about global warming, poverty, relgious fundamentalism, imperialism, racism.... unless of course you think our understanding of these things will have some bearing on our ability to handle the physical world. I'm all ears.

Del of course I'd agree that one can have a successful company in which the employees shared in the profits. But the vast majority of coporation do not work that way. I'm sure you've read about the disparity in compensation for US CEO and the average worker in the firms they run. Usually the differences is measured in orders of magnitude. When I was at Goldman over 7 years ago. If you took employee compensation divided it by the number of employee the average would have been close to $700,000 oer person. Which would make for a nice life style -- even in New York City. Of course the vast majority of employees did not make any where near $700K. Generally, the top 10% would average well into the millions and the top 1% would be into the tens of millions of dollars a year in annuakl compensation. Now I don't have everyone salary stats. Unlike government employees everyones salary was a secret. But I'm sure the percentages are close. Besides really smart people usually want to work for organizations that pay the most. So an organization the truly shares profits usually does not make very much money as all the talent goes elsewhere where they can make more money.

You did not provide a link (it did not display). Del our peceptions are everything. There are perceptions which can be agreeded upon by most observers. If I have two apples and you give me two more, we all know how many apples I will then have. All of the stuff about perceptions and the mind being an interface to the world is interesting, but not very practical day to day. Sure you can have half a 1/2 person, they just may not live very long.

It is neither genocide or assisted suicide, it is simply profit. If it were more profitable provide an healthy safe enviornment for the masses coporations and rich people would do it. But sharing the wealth is simply not very profitable...

Then I'm not clear what a behaviorist is... I just started a book about how to motivate people. In it an analogy is used to describe how people behave: Imagine a man riding and an elephant. The man, represents our rational brain and the elephant represents our irrational emotions. Now the man can direct the elephant, but the elephant can take complete control very easily. This explains why a guy will have unprotected sex with a girl (or guy) that they just met. The risk of an deadly STD, or an unwanted pregnancy is no deterrent. (my analogy) Often what you find is that you have to appeal to one's elephant (emotions) to motivate them. This is why religions can get people to do some things that make very little sense like justifying slavery, condemn homosexuals, or even rationalizing the extermination of a people. For example, when I wrote about the closing of Black books stores it was much more compelling for me to simply list a couple hundred closed stores (appealing to the elephant), rather than citing the number of closed stores (appealing to the elephant). It is the same information but many more people found the long list of closed store much more compelling and the reaction I received was proof. Another example, we call our unmanned killing machines "drones" and call the innocent people slaughtered "collateral damage". I think if the general public where regularly shown the graphic images of the mutilated bodies of innocence victims there would be much more outrage about what s done in our name If we really told the stories of each of our own solders we would fell differently about these wars.

Hey Del, I'm really limiting our reality to what we can actually observe. In other words we know some very strange thing occur at the quantum level. But we would would never experience these things during "our daily lives". We can also conceptualize a 4th spatial dimension and write formulas to represent it but during the course of our day the 4th dimension may as well not exisit. When I refer to objective reality I'm not talking about anything that we can not observer or interact with. This means that 2 + 2 = 4 I don't doubt that mathematical thought is a "natural outgrowth of the human cognitive apparatus". Indeed I would through religion is too. But one is based upon reality and the other is based upon faith, which are to very different things. Sort of like Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize (faith) and he ultimately presides over multiple wars and killing God know who with remote controlled death machines (reality).

Del there is money in exterminating Black people. They have done if before. They are doing it right now. It is not about race, just money. Black crack dealers do it too.

(2+2≠4). Someone described Obama as the only Nobel peace prize winner with a kill list.

Wow Del you thought I was that good

Del for the most part in our daily lives there is objective reality. 2 + 2 will always equal 4. People who refuse to accept that 2+2=4 because they believe it could be equal to something else, despite evidence to the contrary are going to have problems dealing with reality. There are many people in this situation. Then there is of course the situation where an entire population believes something that is objectively false, proven to be untrue, yet the belief persists. There are many such beliefs lthat fall into this category and they cripple a society. In fact we live in such a society where 2+2 does not equal 4.

Del I reworded my original response. It was riddled with poor grammer. I'm not sure if it impacts your interpretation of what I wrote. I looked up Behaviorist and I don't consider myself one. People overeat because they can't control themselves. But this is natural, some of us are better at self control than others. Some of us are under more pressure and stress and therefore find it more difficult to execise self control during different periods. Others simply dislike overeatting so restraining oneself is not difficutl at all. I suspect most people who overeat know they are doing it, know that is is not healthy, but do it anyway. Maybe it is Thanksgiving and there is a ton of free, tasty food available at a relative's house, so one is more likely to overeat under those conditions. The only way to guarantee that someone will not overeat is to make the food unavailable.

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The event will take place on Saturday, September 21, 2013, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Skylight Gallery at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corp., located at 1368 Fulton St. (between New York and Brooklyn Aves.) Brooklyn, NY 11216. The donation for the event is $10 / $30 with book purchase. A book-signing will follow the program and light refreshments will be served. Space is limited, to reserve a seat and get advance tickets, visit the CBL website at www.centgerforblackliterature.org and click on Calendar of Events, or go to https://thebutlerbookreading.eventbrite.com/, or call the Center for Black Literature at 718-804-8883. In 2008, author and journalist Wil Haygood published an enlightening article in the Washington Post on Eugene Allen, who served presidents from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan as the White House’s head butler from 1952 to 1986. 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The Butler stars Oprah Winfrey and Forest Whitaker and is considered both a critical and box office success. Included in the book is an introduction by Daniels and an essay by Haygood in the vein of James Baldwin’s jewel The Devil Finds Work that explores the history of blacks in Hollywood as well as more than 45 pictures of the butler, Eugene Allen, and his family, the presidents he served, and the remarkable cast. The life of Eugene Allen is truly a compelling one. In 1952, Allen started work as a butler in the White House. And as Haygood tells in his 2008 article about Allen: “He saw eight presidential administrations come and go … He was there while America’s racial history was being remade: Brown v. Board of Education, the Little Rock school crisis, the 1963 March on Washington, the cities burning, the civil rights bills, the assassinations.” And all the while, Allen, who never missed a day of work, kept his faith. About the Participants Wil Haygood In 1988, legendary Vietnam War correspondent and novelist Ward Just described Wil Haygood as “perhaps America’s best young reporter.” In the ensuing years, Haygood’s career has been marked by prize-winning journalism and books. His biographies of Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Sammy Davis Jr., and Sugar Ray Robinson have been acclaimed. His family memoir, The Haygoods of Columbus, was hailed as a “work of literature.” Haygood distinguished himself as a journalist at the Boston Globe, where he worked for 17 years—as national writer and foreign correspondent—and now at the Washington Post, where he has covered the national scene since 2002. His award-winning 2008 Washington Post front-page story about longtime White House butler Eugene Allen—reprinted in newspapers all around the world—is the basis for the major motion picture The Butler. Haygood has been an Alicia Patterson Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, and Pulitzer Prize finalist. 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Moonshine, Ecstacy & Molly, something for every generation huh? The reason all of this happens is becuase it is very lucrative, and we are so easily manipulated and exploited it is shameful. In New York City they cancelled the 2nd day of an outdoor concert (walking distance from where I live) because a couple of kids killed themselves doing Molly during the 1st day of the event.

Rihanna is famous for singing about Molly (or at least referencing it) in her song Diamond Lyrics from Rap Genius [intro/Outro] Shine bright like a diamond Shine bright like a diamond [Verse 1] Find light in the beautiful sea I choose to be happy You and I, you and I We're like diamonds in the sky You're a shooting star I see A vision of ecstasy When you hold me I'm alive We're like diamonds in the sky Rihanna – Diamonds Lyrics [Pre-hook] I knew that we'd become one right away Oh, right away At first sight I felt energy of sun rays I saw the life inside your eyes [Hook] So shine bright tonight, you and I We're beautiful like diamonds in the sky Eye to eye, so alive We're beautiful like diamonds in the sky [Post-Hook] Shine bright like a diamond Shine bright like a diamond Shining bright like a diamond We're beautiful like diamonds in the sky Shine bright like a diamond Shine bright like a diamond Shining bright like a diamond We're beautiful like diamonds in the sky [Verse 2] Palms rise to the universe As we moonshine and molly Feel the warmth we'll never die We're like diamonds in the sky You're a shooting star I see A vision of ecstasy When you hold me I'm alive We're like diamonds in the sky [Pre-Hook] At first sight I felt energy of sun rays I saw the life inside your eyes [Hook] [Post-Hook] [intro/Outro] [Hook] [intro/Outro]

Waddya get when these people mix, Shekeelah Spechineck, who would probably go by the nickname "KiKi", 'cause you know we don't use are governments. I used to go by TJ, and Tee-Roy those were not names that I created just what people chose to use. I used to call myself "Easy", but it never caught on, cause I really never forced it.

Del, the people and the situation is indeed very complex. However, we can determine what motiviates people the most by their behavior. Their words are usually a reflection of self-delusion or outright lies. A key to understanding Obama's motivations can be derived by observing his actions. We can say that he was tricked by the GOP, if we want, and that may make some of us feel better, but we would be deluding ourselves.

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If memeory serves there were over 200 different spelling sof the name "Unique", including "Uneek"

Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance by Carla Kaplan

Some of My Best Friends: A White Woman’s Journey into Racial Profiling AALBC.com is one of the few entities that regularly publishes reviews of self published books. A service which is increasingly in short supply but one that I'm glad to provide -- even though it is not exactly the most profitable service. I do draw a line for books without an ISBN. I just don't review them. Indeed I don't even consider them "real" books. There are a number of other reason I steer clear of these books, but I don;t want to start another rank :-) However, there are exceptions to every rule. Jane Chritchlow's book of photographs is one such exception. I consider this book a deceptively compelling take on racial profiling and worth checking out. Michel Martin recently interviewed her for NPR. Check out the book and let me know what you think.

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Pioneer, sit back for a second, take off your reading glasses, take a sip of Henessey, and think about it for a few moments. The answer should be simple... You may not want to accept it, as it would comflict with your assumptions about Obama. I'm sure the assumptions are difficult to reliquish, but if you do the answer would be as be plain as day.

Pioneer, Christianity's history is rife with examples of people twisting it to suit their needs -- even going so far as to justify the massacre or "non-believers" and the enslavement of Black people. Have you ever considered my their are so many denominations in the Black American Christian Church in the US alone?

I clearly remember the 1st Black person I met from the was born and raised in the midwest -- because they sounded just like people in my family from the south. It took a second to wrap my brain around this. I got pretty good at making the distinctions between Black midwestern (different that white) and Black southern accents. But it is much harder now. My New York City bred kids sound just like their friends from Philly, DC, etc. But I believe that is more of a class thing. People lower on the socio-economic scale speak quite differently than people in the same neighborhood. Poor kids speak ebonics more more frequently than middle class kids regardless of where they live. Also I have a cousin, from North Carolina, who used to always say "dis-n-dat". But no one in NY City used that term -- unless they came from the south. My cousin no longer uses the phrase today. She simply grew out of it and is better able to express herself. Naamean?

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