ETERNAL TRUTH

Admit it or not, all Homo sapiens live by a philosophy of fact or fiction; faith or reason; dogma or science; miracles or evidence. Worldwide, to one degree or another, I guess that at least 90% fall into the categories of fiction, faith, dogma, and miracles. Perhaps 1%--2% live inclusively by fact, reason, science, and evidence; leaving about 8% who live by some sort of mix.

Any of these philosophies chronicling Homo sapiens existence demand two bedrock affirmations: one defines what is PRIME in the known universe, and the other defines the origin and nature of EVIL, the antithesis of PRIME.

The first immutable paradigm, PRIME, is defined as First in Time. First in existence. First in quality, rank, degree, influence, importance, and value. The Individual Human Being is the only PROVABLE existent in the known universe that meets such a criterion of PRIME qua PRIME. Defined another way: when I am here everything is here; when I am gone everything is gone. Hence this infallible paradigm cannot be disproved or proven to be otherwise. (In my book I define it as The Law of Singular Existence, and I offer a more extensive proof.) However, in an essay limited to 1000 words, it’s virtually impossible; furthermore it is only preliminary to the primary reason I write this essay.

The second immutable paradigm (necessary but also only preliminary to the primary reason I write) is defined as STATISM and THEISM which are the very genesis of EVIL in the known universe. They are also known as Church, State, Religion, and Government. Both of them have an evolved history of planned intent to destroy and enslave PRIME via genocide, infanticide, slavery, and torture. Among these endless states is the United States, which has historically employed all of them for its establishment. Of course the reader is certainly justified in demanding that I prove it!

Since that word and space problem, I wrote of above, and since I’m also convinced most readers would prefer to see me dead than to read my proof, I suggest the following: Read the honest and brilliant genius of historian Howard Zinn’s book, A PEOPLE’S HISTORY of the UNITED STATES. His documented evidence cannot be denied—unless you’re an ORWELLIAN automaton, MACHIAVELLIAN despot, or just a JINGOISTIC fool.

This gets me to the reason I chose to write this essay—MURDERED CHILDREN! It’s been preeminently proven that harming PRIME, by individual acts of violence, robbery, murder, jealously rape, torture, etc. OR by STATIST policy, primarily WAR, is the very genesis of EVIL. Therefore, ONE (allow me to repeat—ONE!) infant killed by military action, government orders, or by “smart” bombs suffering I.Q. meltdown, is an act of pure EVIL in NO way different than individual killing or violence!!

Just one graphic example of such warped morality. I recently watched an interview of Lyndon Johnson’s daughter. When asked what words spoken by her dad are the most memorable to her. She responded that it was the time he stated, “I only wish that I could do more for America’s children who live in poverty and neglect.”

Like a firestorm scorching across my mind, I wished for a chance to ask him (and all of the other 43) “What did you feel and think about when you gave orders to napalm hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese and Cambodian children?”

Remember, I stated that THEISM AND STATISM are Janus faced equals as the genesis of EVIL, and I mentioned the word limit to this essay. However, I could simply use words like Rome, Pope, Cardinal, Priest,Bishop, Church in place of generals, presidents, congress,etc. as evil rapists of thousands of innocent children, hundreds of deaf children, and this essay would read the same: Innocent victims and demonic monsters by different names.

In closing I righteously demand that people take the Just War and Collateral Damage semantics and stick them where the sun never shines! Remember, any “human” who believes such crap has to accept such semantics for their OWN children, and we all know that is pure BS!!

Like the license plate says: It should never hurt to be a child.

Evil (Existence Extinguished)

Intellectual discussion, confrontation, and writing not only guide, but also may be the only way to guarantee human survival, and they are the greatest of pleasures. The tools for this marketplace of ideas and cerebral enjoyment are WORDS. However, their use rests atop an Occam’s razor of sorts—they either mirror reality or rape it. Words used to deal with reality are not a matter of opinion, of polls, of a vote, or a matter of historical context. Such words are conceptual representation objectively subsumed by reality. Through our senses, perception, and scientific exploration, these words allow us to accurately understand reality; they represent the truth about reality. They are, then, the foundation for paradigms by which we live our lives. They provide a recipe for us to write and reason about The Singularity, The Evolution of Life, Existence, and Consciousness. The most important ones, we call axioms or laws defining self-evident truth.

This essay is about two of those self-evident words, in fact the two most important to the existence and survival of Homo sapiens: EVIL and PRIME. Words that as Plato remarked decide matters of “life and death.” As will become clear EVIL can be thought of as ANTI-PRIME; they have the same genesis. They hold a Janus-faced symbiotic relationship, though never for beneficial reasons. They are Siamese twins that evolved simultaneously at that nexus in time when Hominids evolved a cerebral cortex capable of consciousness of itself and of its mortality. Together, these conjoined twins (EVIL and PRIME) are synonymous with THE INDIVIDUAL HUMAN BEING.

When I conceptualized PRIME in essays and the book I’m writing, as the ultimate existent subsuming all paradigms of and about human consciousness and existence, I did not formally conceptualize its polar opposite. That archetype of Anti-Prime is, of course, the word EVIL. It alone, of all words available, etymologically integrates the absolute negation of PRIME, hence of existence and consciousness. However, in this exceptional case, Noah Webster’s great book offers little help. It simply states,

1. Anything that causes displeasure, injury, pain, suffering, etc.
2. Moral depravity, wickedness, anything morally bad or wrong.

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THEISM

In simple terms, common sense was Homo sapiens’ need for gods. However, religion more than any other human paradigm shows how evil and wrong common sense can be. It is seldom congruent to reality. Why, therefore, does mysticism and theism, in the view of the vast majority of Homo sapiens, overpower science? Simple, it is based on childish common sense over a million years. This comic book approach to life continues unabated today in spite of the fact that never does any of that “common sense” conform to scientific reality.

On the other hand, the irrefutable laws of science are only believed by a very small percentage out of the billions of Homo sapiens on earth. In terms of cosmic time, it’s been but a blink of an eyelash since the majority of Homo sapiens no longer believe that the earth is the center of everything. Also, within that blink, virtually all Homo sapiens believe in creationism over evolution. The really surreal part is that within that same virtuality resides virtually all of the world’s leaders and thinkers! I ask you to consider the following statistics: a recent survey showed that 21% of the nations’ biology teachers believe in creationism. A Gallup Poll showed that 50% of the United States takes the story of Noah in the Bible literally. Thirty-two percent believe that Jesus will return to earth within the 21st Century. Seventy-eight percent believe that angels and devils operate within the world daily. Seventy-two percent believe in Satan. Forty-two percent of Americans believe that everything in the Bible is literally true.

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