The Ten Commandments of General Semantics

1. Thou shalt entertain no other theories (that conflict with general semantics).
2. Thou shalt not construct or use other devices than the structural differential.
3. Thou shalt not criticize Korzybski, for his word shall be not questioned.
4. Thou shalt keep revered the annual Korzybski Memorial lecture, and never do anything else on that day.
5. Thou shalt honor time-binding and all thy ancestors who have passed down the written word.
6. Thou shalt cooperate with thy fellow human beings, for not doing so is to behave like animals.
7. Thou shalt not truck with proponents of theories conflicting with general semantics.
8. Thou shalt not take another's general semanticist's words and pass them off as thy own.
9. Thou shalt not speak falsely against thy fellow general semanticists.
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors properties, for to do so is to behave like animals.

The Four Stages of Competence

According to Kevin Trudeau


1. Unconscious Incompetence - this is the stage where you don't know that you don't know;

2. Conscious Incompetence - this is the stage that you KNOWYOU DON'T KNOW;

3. Conscious Competence - this is when you know that you know, but you have to
consciously think about it;

4. Unconscious Competence - this is when it is second nature; this is when the information is part of you; this is when you know it just as easily as you know your own name; this is when it is fully internalized and is just automatic.

ATTN Global Warming Cult--the HOAX is over!

Congress has Reached a Point of Technological Obsolescence

(NaturalNews) Given that the massive health care reform bill just passed by the House was one of the largest pieces of legislation in U.S. history, you might wonder why you didn't get to vote on it. When it comes to federal legislation, your vote doesn't count in America, didn't you know? You are dictated to by a small band of the political elite who may or may not represent your interests (or even the interests of your fellow citizens).

Those people are called members of Congress. And as you'll read here, they are essentially obsolete. Society no longer has any need for them. Here's why...

Why Congress was created

Consider why the U.S. Congress was created in the first place: Back in the 1700s, there was no internet. There weren't even telephones. Heck, this was pre-telegraph! Long-distance communication was simply impossible, so the people had a very practical need to send a representative to Washington to represent their wishes on the legislative front.

And so the idea of the U.S. Congress was born. Senators and Congresspeople would be representatives of the People from their home states and districts, and they would vote according to the wishes, desires and best interests of the people back home. They would essentially be proxy voters. Sounds good in theory, right?

Fast forward 230 years or so...

Now, instant communication is available to almost everyone. A new law being proposed in Washington could be instantly read -- and voted on -- by the People all across America. The internet has made the whole purpose behind the U.S. Congress obsolete... irrelevant. Why do Americans need someone else to represent them when we can all just read and vote on the bills ourselves? In an age of instant communications, Congress is no longer needed.

But of course, the current members of Congress would heartily disagree with that assessment. If there's one rule about power, it's that those in power always seek more power. And because only members of Congress can vote federal laws into existence -- not the actual citizens of the country -- they hold a tremendous amount of concentrated power... and they're not about to let it go.

Corporations love the current system, too, because they can simply bypass the People and lobby Congress to pass the laws that favor their own interests. This is how the U.S. Congress has become a legislative auction house where new laws are passed to appease whoever raises more money for reelection campaigns. Meanwhile, the People have been abandoned in this equation, and the interests of the People that were supposed to be "represented" in Washington have been long forgotten.

Did you realize that 237 members of Congress are millionaires? (http://www.politico.com/news/storie...) And seven of them have a net worth greater than $100 million. When lawmakers are rolling in that kind of cash, how can they possibly represent the interests of the People, of which 99% earn far less?

Further demonstrating detachment from the people they claim to represent, one new Congressman -- just sworn in yesterday -- managed to break four campaign promises in his first hour of office (http://www.gouverneurtimes.com/inde...).

It's time for Direct Democracy

In a Direct Democracy, the People directly participate in the debate and passage of new laws. All laws are publicly published for debate and discussion -- unlike the current situation where 1,000-page laws like the Patriot Act or the new health care reform bill are covertly written, then often deposited in the federal register just minutes before a scheduled vote.

Some Solutions

• Create a government program to help arm, train, and qualify American citizens to carry firearms.  This will save police resources, and teach people to take some responsibility for their personal security.  Participation would be voluntary.  
• Legalize marijuana and tax processed cannabis items e.g. a pack of marijuana cigarettes.  The age of tobacco will end when people realize what a waste of time cigarettes are by comparison.  Tax revenues will increase.  Hopefully use of alcohol will also decline.  
• Build a United Earth Defense (UED) system to knock Earth crossing objects out of the sky if on a collision course.  The nukes are pointed in the wrong direction, people!
• Begin projects to mine objects in our solar system for minerals and elements necessary to support the needs of energy and infrastructure on Earth.
• Keep a population of people constantly off-world so that if a disaster strikes--meteor that we cannot stop with the UED, a caldera (like Yellowstone) touches off, etc--we have members of the species who can pick up the pieces and hopefully our species can survive such a curse.  
• All political parties must be abolished.  Individuals should stand for election, but there shall be no political factions.  If you can't get your agenda through without uniting in some sort of Teamsters Union, your agenda probably isn't good for the nation at large.  Political factions have gotten us 237 Millionaire Congressmen--through the spoil system.  
• All lobbying groups would be abolished.  If the people don't have time to petition the government for a redress of grievances, it's probably not that big a deal and they can better spend their time undertaking more productive projects. 
• American citizens would have mandatory education in reading and understanding statistics, thinking and reasoning critically, and they would be educated not to reason emotionally.  The political processes of this country are some sort of hybrid between infomercials and spectator sports.  People paint their faces and cheer for one faction or the other.  
• As a matter of social policy spectator sports would be discouraged.  Participation would be encouraged.  Spectators fill their couch cushions with beer farts, and participants get stronger and learn social skills.    

Ron Paul Raises Points

Updated Dogma

Agreement is not requisite of acceptance.

Comprehension is not requisite of cooperation.

If you don't have a plan, are you part of someone else's?

Critical theory does not offer solutions.

Chaos Theory offers grounds for faith, hope, and charity.

The problems are between others and the truth, you aren't in the dynamic.

The power of Chaos convinces and enhances you!

A Little Plato

For this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it; they will not exercise their memories, but, trusting in external, foreign marks, they will not bring things to remembrance from within themselves. You have discovered a remedy not for memory, but for reminding. You offer your students the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom. They will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.

---Plato

Make An Impression on a Congressman

The template is simple. Go to see your Congressman in his office or at an office near you. Every Congressman seems to have a local office from his/her district. Go there, meet with a staffer who works on your general issue i.e. one of the finance advisers. Make an impression and get that impression to the Congressman

The Rabbi

Slevin: How do you justify being a rabbi... and a gangster?

The Rabbi: I don't. I'm a bad man who doesn't waste time wondering what could've been when I am what could've been and what could not have been. I live on both sides of the fence. My grass is always green. Consider, Mr. Fisher... there are two men sitting here before you, and one of them you should be very afraid of. Where's my money?