Supreme Court Justices

It's been done so seldom most people don't even know it can be done. What? Debenching (impeaching) a Supreme Court Justice. Yes, just as with impeaching a President, the Legislature has the power to debench an unsatisfactory Justice, and it's been done.

It seems that the Court usurping the duties sovereign to the Legislature should be good and sufficient grounds for debenching the entire lot of Justices who continue to vote their personal ideologies rather than stick to the strict letter of Constitutional law.

Why is there anything?

We argue about the trivialities of existence while overlooking the absolute absurdity of the fact there even is existence. Each of us must admit we believe in the impossible, because there's no way... drudged up from the depths of our limited cognitive abilities... anything could just have always been. So we live inside the impossible and wonder about the improbable... when we actually take the time to wonder about anything at all outside the humdrum.

Richard Dawkins, burned-out bulb that he is, is proof of that. He's got such a thing against God (and for himself) he hasn't taken the time to ask a non-God question that could answer his truly lame one, "Who created God?" Why not ask, "How did anything begin?"

When man is "smart" enough to finally answer that question, then the God-thing that so flummoxes Dawkins will clear right up.

The proof that everything has always existed is that anything exists now. Personally, I believe an ever-existing God is the reason for it all. The only reason anything is possible is because God chose that it be so. The only logical possibility within the otherwise total impossibility of this existence is God.

So, let's go a bit further with that. If we admit we live inside an impossibility, implausibility becomes more plausible. If the only reason anything can exist is because of God, then why is it so hard to think that perhaps He cares about His creation? Wouldn't you, if you were Him? How big a step from the absurdity of actually existing in the first place is it to the possibility of God writing His creation a letter? You know, an instruction manual with the rules to safely navigate His creation. That would seem logical, since He chose to lock existence in this universe into time.

However, He doesn't seem too concerned about the care and maintenance of orchards, animal husbandry, etc., rather, He's interested in what's on the inside of us, how to care for something a lot of us don't seem to worry about much at all. But, according to the manual, that's the only part of us that will last, and, according to His manual, it takes constant upkeep or it goes all to Hell. Not pleasant. Hard work, too.

Well, the not going to Hell part isn't hard, since it's a gift, it's the keeping the dirt out of the temple that will wear you out.

Me and Thee

Is it just human that if you choose to hate, you have a good reason and so it's justified, but if someone else chooses to hate, they're a nut-job who's probably a danger to themselves or others?

The Key To Happiness

I had a strange dream, in it I was searching for the Key To Happiness. I was told that in order to find it I must be guided by an animal who was usually evil, except when the weather was cold. If I could befriend one of these animals during a period of cold weather, it would guide me to the key.

It took a while, but finally I found one of the animals. It looked like a large black dog, but it hid among the branches of trees and other places high up. It was a scary thing, so I hesitated to get too close to it, and just followed, watching it. While it was on the eve of a barn, just above my head, I mustered the courage to speak to it. It stopped and waited, listening, as it watched me with intent eyes.

To my surprise, I befriended it by simply telling it I needed it to be my friend. With a fluid motion, it jumped down beside me and looked patiently up at me. Deciding I was prepared enough for a pretty long journey, I asked it to guide me to The Key To Happiness. It repled, "The key is not at a place, it is something you make. Only you can make the key to your happiness."

Then the scene changed, we were inside a large room similar in style to a Middle-Eastern hall, with rows of seating filled with all sorts of people. I was standing beside the black dog as it spoke to the audience. It was telling a Hindu man dressed in fine brocade clothing and a gold turban, "God is with all those who seek Him." With that, the man smiled peacefully.

It then spoke to the audience in general, saying, "Happiness is a road we must each choose to walk again each day, but it is a road we can only reach by using the key we have chosen to make for ourselves and then choosing to use that key. We can share our happiness with others, but we cannot give happiness to others. Personal happiness cannot be taken or given, it can only be chosen and made."

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Not taken or given? But it's common to try to give happiness to someone else, to "make someone happy," that doesn't work? It can only be chosen and made? Shouldn't that be the other way around, "made and chosen"? I see! In order to make it, I must first *choose* to make it.

Going back to the first, why cold weather? Could it be an allusion to needing a "cool head of reason" not muddled with the "hot" tumultuous emotions of anger, discord or displeasure? Also, why was the animal usually evil, except in cold weather? "Hot" emotions are evil, as a general rule, could that be it? The fact the animal was usually evil might mean it's more common to be in turmoil (evil) than at peace. That's sad to realize.

I'm not sure I understand it all, but some dreams are worth remembering anyway.

"Political Correctness", the new brand of McCarthyism

For those of you who don't know what I mean, read a bit on Wikipedia about the infamous senator who inspired the term:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy

A quote from the article:
"Today the term is used more generally to describe demagogic, reckless, and unsubstantiated accusations, as well as public attacks on the character or patriotism of political opponents."

If that doesn't describe today's "Political Correctness", nothing does. Way to go, all you pc-pushers, McCarthy would be proud of you. Just remember, every freedom you take away from someone else you also take away from yourself. "You can't say that, because someone might be offended by it!" can degenerate into, "You can't say anything, because we said so!" faster than you might think is possible.

Here's Some Stupid... The Oil "Crisis"

If ever there was anything that demonstrated the ingrained stupidity of the vast majority of the human race, it has to be the "Oil Crisis". Why? Because, since at least the 1950s we have had clean, all-but-free alternatives to oil, at least to fuel our vehicles.

When I was in my early 20s back in the 70s, I was rummaging through some old magazines my parents had stored and came across an issue of Popular Mechanics from the 1950s; on its cover it displayed what was, for that era, a futuristic-looking race car. What caught my attention was the headline for the article about the car, lauding the fact it had won some famous race using a revolutionary new engine powered by a water-turbine engine. This was not yesterday, this was almost 60 years ago!

The list of alternative fuels to power or vehicles is growing, yet we persist in our deathwish by burying our heads, and our hard-earned dollars, in the sand as we throw insane amounts of money at the Middle East to purchase their over-priced, over-prized oil.

The most stupid thing about it all is that there are many really cheap alternative fuels that don't even require a new engine-type to use them. With gas prices soaring to record amounts, it could only be our entrenched up-bringing that causes us to persist in our rabid devotion to something the entire world would be better off without.

Learning and Teaching

If we are interacting with something, we are automatically learning; if we are interacting with someone, we are automatically both learning and teaching. This realization, when honestly considered, can be scary for all of us who are not perfect.

Expedience

Contrary to popular hype, we don't live lives of "quiet desperation", we live lives of quiet expedience... desperation takes a lot of concentrated, long-term effort, and most people would rather not.