Jesus loves those that keep their money close to their chests, buy Congressmen who will do exactly that, and piss on the poor. Sweet! I'm going to heaven, after all!
If you honestly think a bureaucracy won't spring up in that system, one that will dictate where and how you get to live, you've never been involved in any sort of local government. Whether it's HOAs, town councils, or county boards, you will always find some assclown who wants to feel big by telling other people what to do. What you're describing is a utopia that can not exist because of human nature.
Which anyone who's ever had to stand a night lookout aboard a ship would already know. If you want to see something in near-perfect blackness, don't look it directly but just to the side. It's amazing how much detail you can pick out, once you get used to looking at things that way (comes in handy on first dates with women, too). I imagine that contact lenses with data readouts would require the same kind of training, but it's certainly not insurmountable.
Some things will have to be changed, unfortunately, but there's no real reason anyone needs to own real property privately. It should remain the property of society and put toward its most beneficial use to the community. So bureaucrats would have the legal authority to tear down your house and force you to live in some high rise, even though that's not what you want for yourself (using the theoretical "you", it's irrelevant if you personally want to live in a high rise).
How about you let people decide for themselves how they want to live their lives, instead of using men with guns to force them all to live the way you think they should? Just leave people the hell alone. Contrary to what you may think, you do not know what's best for everyone else, and you do NOT have the right to tell them how to live.
(8) Find myself added to the list of assassinated Presidents.
And I have to point out:
(5) Strengthen the 14th Amendment to provide that no political subdivision may abridge the rights and freedoms secured by the United States Constitution One of those rights is the right to own property. Which you abolished in step 2. Welcome to hypocrisy.
It's a simple truth that centralized organizations are among the most efficient forms of human effort we've ever seen. The Soviet Union's economy fell apart because bureaucrats in Moscow tried to make decisions on how business on the other side of the empire should be conducted. I think my brain just tried to crawl out through one ear. Putting those two sentences makes no sense, whatsoever.
Essentially, healthy people that don't have any physical or mental complications. That leaves out most of the women I've dated over the years. They all had some serious mental "complications". Seriously, though, what's the definition of "complication" in that sentence?
There would be no more parties. How would you accomplish this, without trampling on people's right to freedom of association? Or would that be gone, too?
There are plenty of people that are interested in more than just that. Not everyone is interested in sports./quote.
Yeah, but some of them are, and you didn't answer the question about how you would require high schoolers to take other classes? When you allow students to set their own curriculum, how many will skip hard classes like math, chemistry, or even world history, and just study sports and sex ed?
I would remove "In God We Trust" as the national motto, as well as removing the "Under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance. After that, I'd put limits on advertising and marketing which are constantly being shoved in our faces. Then I'd make Network Neutrality a reality. I'd pull out troops out of Iraq. Gay marriage would be legalized at the federal level. Basically I'd pretty much change everything.:) Apparently, including how laws are written and passed.
People who get below a point determined to be reasonably intelligent (100 is average, not smart) get sent to Texas, which is to be denounced as a state. Speaking as a Texan (I wasn't born here, but I got here as quick as I could), I say: please, yes, send tens of millions of morons down here. They'll make great cannon fodder when we invade you Yankies and take all your land.;)
1) Straighten out the economy. Oil prices, housing slump, and the mess that is the Federal Banking Commission. And how, exactly, would you do that? What specific steps would you take to lower oil prices and solve the mess with housing? What would you change about the banking commission?
Nostalgia's all warm and fuzzy, sure, but eventually people who can't help clinging to the past get old and die, and the rest of us can move on. Not to quibble, but technically even the people who embrace everything new and shiny will get old and die, too.
Whether or not a church teaches a doctrine or not is irrelevant. Do the scriptures speak to its relevance, for me, is the only test. I wasn't arguing if anyone was correct in their beliefs, I was stating what those beliefs are. Therefore, not only is the doctrine relevant to the argument, nothing else besides the doctrine is.
The developer/sys admin running us Oh sweet zombie Jesus, god is a sysadmin?! Now you've got me wondering if the universe is all part of some horrible obfuscated Perl entry. Come to think of it, that would explain a lot.
All you have to do to go to heaven in Christianity is to believe in Jesus. There are over 2 billion people in the world who self-identify as "Christian". A little over half of them are Roman Catholic (also referred to as Latin Rite Catholic in some parts of the world). About half of the rest are some other version of "Catholic", either one of the Eastern Churches, Lutheran, or Anglican/Episcopalian. None of these people believe (or at least, none of these churches teach, which is probably a more accurate statement) that simply believing in Jesus is sufficient to enter heaven. Furthermore, a significant number of Protestant churches also teach that belief alone is insufficient (see James 2:19). What are commonly referred to as "Fundamentalist Christian" (though they ignore most of the "fundamentals" that have existed for about 2000 years) in the US are the only group to believe that belief alone is enough to go to heaven.
The TSA hasn't done jack shit to prevent terrorism. Terrorism is defeated by police work and good intelligence, not invading far off countries. Terrorism is not defeated militarily. Holy crap, when did the TSA start invading countries?!
Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had a million dollars? Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two chicks at the same time, man. Peter Gibbons: That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time? Lawrence: Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I were a millionaire I could hook that up, too; 'cause chicks dig dudes with money. Peter Gibbons: Well, not all chicks. Lawrence: Well, the type of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me do. Peter Gibbons: Good point.
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It's enforced with the threat of violence. Don't believe me? Ask Wesley Snipes what happens when you don't pay taxes for a couple of years.
Yes, because communist societies the world over have completed avoided bureaucracies that dictate the conditions of people lives.
Really? No mega-churches in California?
The Church on the Way
Four Square Ministries
Shepherd of the Hills
Saddleback Church
Those are all within 20 minutes drive of each other in Los Angeles.
If you honestly think a bureaucracy won't spring up in that system, one that will dictate where and how you get to live, you've never been involved in any sort of local government. Whether it's HOAs, town councils, or county boards, you will always find some assclown who wants to feel big by telling other people what to do. What you're describing is a utopia that can not exist because of human nature.
Which anyone who's ever had to stand a night lookout aboard a ship would already know. If you want to see something in near-perfect blackness, don't look it directly but just to the side. It's amazing how much detail you can pick out, once you get used to looking at things that way (comes in handy on first dates with women, too). I imagine that contact lenses with data readouts would require the same kind of training, but it's certainly not insurmountable.
How about you let people decide for themselves how they want to live their lives, instead of using men with guns to force them all to live the way you think they should? Just leave people the hell alone. Contrary to what you may think, you do not know what's best for everyone else, and you do NOT have the right to tell them how to live.
What about the Constitutional provision of being secure in our own homes? Doesn't that sort of imply ownership of real property?
(8) Find myself added to the list of assassinated Presidents.
And I have to point out: (5) Strengthen the 14th Amendment to provide that no political subdivision may abridge the rights and freedoms secured by the United States Constitution One of those rights is the right to own property. Which you abolished in step 2. Welcome to hypocrisy.
Yeah, but some of them are, and you didn't answer the question about how you would require high schoolers to take other classes? When you allow students to set their own curriculum, how many will skip hard classes like math, chemistry, or even world history, and just study sports and sex ed?
You don't have to be president to have two interns at the same time.
Yes, because with Apple, patents Just Work.
Oblig:
Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had a million dollars?
Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two chicks at the same time, man.
Peter Gibbons: That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time?
Lawrence: Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I were a millionaire I could hook that up, too; 'cause chicks dig dudes with money.
Peter Gibbons: Well, not all chicks.
Lawrence: Well, the type of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me do.
Peter Gibbons: Good point.