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Re: Pollution
« Reply #165 on: February 23, 2015, 12:17:58 am »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdwCKzqVRdQ&feature=player_embedded

Corporate Money Vs. Water 


 Hear Native American leaders wisdom about fracking and why it must be banned. It is nothing less than a system that is going to pollute the veins of Mother Earth.

 We hear Senator James Inhofe (R- OK) enthusiastically declare that there is enough natural gas to supply our needs for the next 35 years in the Marcellus Shale (NY- PA).

 The film then directs our attention to the following: It's about our needs vs. our children's future.

 Where is the long term thinking and responsible leadership?


 "Regulations and fines do not protect the environment. There is no way to undo the harm hydro fracking will cause" says Oren Lyons, faithkeeper of the Onondaga Nation. "When you sit and you counsel for the welfare of the people, think not of yourself, nor of your family, nor even your generation. Make decisions on behalf of the 7th generation coming... you have to defend and protect them so that they may enjoy what you enjoy today."

 --Bibi Farber

 This video was made by "Reel Change for Nonprofits" participants Tracy Basile and Scott Halfmann of WESPAC and Friends of Turtle Island.
- See more at: http://www.nextworldtv.com/videos/anti-fracking/the-unfractured-.html#sthash.zMmaSy4B.dpuf
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« Reply #166 on: February 23, 2015, 04:16:56 pm »
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« Reply #167 on: February 28, 2015, 03:43:00 pm »


What Percent of Earth’s Surface Do Urban Areas Comprise?

Although urban areas account for just 1.5% of the Earth's land area, they contain over 50% of the world's population. Much of Earth's population growth also occurs in urban areas: 54% in 2014, which is up from 34% in 1960. Earth has approximately 37 billion acres of land, with nearly 8 billion acres of that land being arable (land capable of being used to grow crops). If by 2050 the world's population reaches the predicted 9 billion, there would be enough land on Earth for every individual to have 4 acres to themselves.




Agelbert NOTE: That last statement takes the prize for biosphere math challenged moronic statistics. A human, because he is a FUNCTION of the biosphere, REQUIRES a LOT MORE than 4 acres of BIOSPHERE, with all the life forms that entails, to survive. That said, the problem is the upper 20% of humanity that CAUSES over 80% of the POLLUTION. Population and biomass are not the problem. The world ant biomass is far greater than the human biomass. The same can be said for the zooplankton. The war loving, conscience free, 1.5% or so of humanity IS the problem.

More about land use:

•Queen Elizabeth II of England owns most of the Earth's land at roughly 6.6 billion acres.  :o  ::)

•In 2009, more than 50% of people were living in urban areas rather than rural areas.

•Non-arable land can be converted to arable land through various techniques such as creating new irrigation canals, planting trees, adding fertilizer, and greenhouses. 

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-percent-of-earths-surface-do-urban-areas-comprise.htm
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« Reply #168 on: March 02, 2015, 01:30:32 am »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZaD-H_j3pU&feature=player_embedded
Geo-engineering will backfire badly. Count on it. The USAF has its head totally up its descending colon.  >:(
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« Reply #169 on: March 02, 2015, 01:41:47 am »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk0DrAf6wUc&feature=player_embedded
Former FBI agent warns that chemtrails are harming the biosphere.

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What does a Former FBI Special Agent and Chief have to say about ChemTrails? You will be Surprised! Here is the WikiPedia report on who this Great Man was: Theodore L. Gunderson (Ted) (November 7, 1928 - July 31, 2011[1]) was a retired United States Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent In Charge and head of the Los Angeles FBI. He was most famous for handling the Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy cases. Ted Gunderson was born in Colorado Springs. He graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1950. Gunderson joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation in December 1951 under J. Edgar Hoover. He served in the Mobile, Knoxville, New York City, and Albuquerque offices. He held posts as an Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge in New Haven and Philadelphia. In 1973 he became the head of the Memphis FBI and then the head of the Dallas FBI in 1975. Ted Gunderson was appointed the head of the Los Angeles FBI in 1977, In 1979 he was one of a handful interviewed for the job of FBI director, which ultimately went to William H. Webster.

Get involved in what is getting Sprayed right on you, your friends and loved ones! We need MORE people to record whats Going on Above your Heads! Look Up People! Get involved!!! Video Whats going on, Create your OWN YouTube Channel -- UPLOAD and make Public what they are doing to ALL OF US!!! Also I encourage Everyone to search and Watch the Documentary " What In the World Are they Spraying? " It has SCIENTIFIC FACTS and many statements from REAL SCIENTISTS with PhD's that will TELL You that ChemTrails ARE REAL! Spread the Word, POINT the Chemtrails OUT to Others WHEN they are above and just ask them What do you think those are? Hopefully the People will continue researching ChemTrails on their own!

SEE Patent #5003186 owned by Hughes Aircraft Company, this PROVES that chemicals or fine aluminum and or barium particles CAN BE MIXED AND DISTRIBUTED Via the Jet Fuel!
This CLEARLY explain's why some ChemTrails are formed directly from the engine exhaust!
*** US Patent 5003186 Stratospheric welsbach seeding for reduction of global warming (spraying with aluminum) ***
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USAF has its head totally up its descending colon.
« Reply #170 on: March 02, 2015, 06:41:25 pm »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZaD-H_j3pU&feature=player_embedded
Geo-engineering will backfire badly. Count on it. The USAF has its head totally up its descending colon.  >:(
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« Reply #171 on: March 02, 2015, 08:49:11 pm »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCdEF92oSNA&feature=player_embedded
Since the YEAR 2000, the Department of Energy and Department of Defense have been GEO-engineering a heat shield (that does not work!   ).

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Dr. Perlinigieri exposes many aspects of the Chemtrails including nanoparticles as well as aerosol chemtrails loaded with toxins and poisons.


When  jet engine burns a hydrocarbon, CO2 and H2O are produced. THAT water freezes at high altitude (above about 21,000 feet). YOU see a contrail. The contrail dissipates quickly (the ice descends and melts or sublimates into transparent water vapor or very thin high stratus clouds.).

A dead giveaway that a jet is NOT producing contrails is when you see it suddenly stop producing them and start a few seconds later. That is prima facie, irrefutable evidence of a sprayed aerosol. The atmosphere DOES NOT change temperature enough to suddenly NOT FREEZE water for a few seconds and then suddenly decide to freeze it a mile or so later in flight!

Also, commercial jets DO NOT do course reversals unless they have an emergency. Chemtrail patterns show OBVIOUS U-turns according to a spray pattern.

Aerosol CHEMTRAILS STAY in the atmosphere because they are lighter than water AND they reflect sunlight. They spread and form alto-stratus like clouds (but slightly thicker, such as cumulus clouds, that usually occur closer to the surface). The result is, among other harmful effects on biota when these aerosols finally reach the ground, that the surface experiences rapid cooling and temperature extremes.

However, the reflected sunlight DOES NOT make it out of the atmosphere, as was hoped by the NUT CASE DR. Strangeloves from the fossil fuel industry that came up with this scheme to preserve fossil fuel profits.   

That's right, boys and girls, the climate CONTINUES to warm because the CO2, and now more and more CH4 (methane) keep building up.

THAT MEANS that, when the temperature swings from cold to hot or hot to cold, the daily range swing of temperature is greater, which harms all life that is not sheltered (the wildlife).

THAT ALSO MEANS that storms are more violent because rapid temperature changes fuel storm intensity and duration. 


THAT ALSO MEANS that when hot temperatures are BENEATH the "heat shield", as they are during the summer, the IR portion gets TRAPPED - reflected back down to the ground. The result is MORE DROUGHTS and HIGHER TEMPERATURES according to the drift pattern of the aerosols.     

And THEN there are the documented toxic effects of these poisonous compounds on the flora and fauna.
 


In short, it is one of the STUPIDEST pieces of brain dead "apex predator" insanity since the Military Joint Chiefs recommended to President Eisenhower that we go to war with the Russians before they got enough nukes to kill more than 20 million or so of the people of the USA. YES, they ACTUALLY recommended that. And YEAH, it was the RAND corporation that passed that bit of game theory BULL**** to the military. Hollywood picked up on it and made a movie. It was called Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

Have a nice day.  
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« Reply #172 on: March 02, 2015, 09:19:24 pm »

NON-intelligent DESIGN   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89WammWN9p8&feature=player_embedded

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Chemtrails Exposed By Pilots, Doctors, Scientists, Meteorologists, Neurologists, Biologists, &
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« Reply #173 on: March 04, 2015, 05:57:51 pm »
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« Reply #174 on: March 04, 2015, 07:42:15 pm »
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« Reply #175 on: March 06, 2015, 07:29:35 pm »
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I just realized how INTENSE the conditioning in the monastery is. I can even liken it to voluntarily entering in prison. There will be no way i will be able to communicate with words, what the experience is of living this lifestyle.

I can thank you all for helping me see that. After 30 years of being here I have become quite rigid because of the structure, and agreements that exist here. To tell you the truth, i have been thinking about leaving and getting free of this sanctuary. But at my age, and physical condition, not to mention the expense, i will likely die here. I can actually see that I appear to have much more rigid conditions, than those of you who are free in the world. At this present time I am tending to agree with that assessment.

Now this is not totally depressing to me, and I do feel I made the right choice to enter......but this has grown to be too predictable. We leave very few "footprints" in the attempt to do no harm to each other or the environment, and raise animals and vegetables and live below the poverty line so we paid no taxes to the feds or state.......and that is the way it has been for 30 years for me, and it started in 1975.

Big freaking deal. If I could figure a way to leave, and still keep those principles going, I would be sorely tempted. I know for sure that all of you are doing the best you can.

It IS a GIANT VICTORY over the profit over planet biosphere challenged MORONS THAT you HAVE ACHIEVED. NEVER forget that! You have been contributing to a healthy biosphere by your stoic avoidance of a polluting lifestyle. Consider the amount of fossil fuels you DID NOT burn and the amount of innocent life you DID NOT harm. That is REAL. That has given us a fighting chance to give the finger to the morons that do not get it. It might have even convinced many biosphere math challenged idiots, like I used to be, to get with the Renewable Energy and sustainability program.

The legacy of your actions is important. If everyone did what you do for seven generations, the biosphere would be more livable, more viable and more healthy. THAT is the litmus test of a life well lived.

You have NOTHING to be disappointed with in your walk.

Of course it is lamentably true that people that take renewable energy and respect for all life seriously are in the minority. It is also true that we are probably totally forked. SO?

Doing the right thing is all that really matters. WHY? Because doing the wrong thing is stupid. Intelligent people do not engage in stupid behavior.

MKing is quick to bring up the desperate poor who will do whatever it takes to make ends meet. He extrapolates, from the energy seeking nature and example of humans trying to avoid death by starvation, that it's okay to pollute the sh it out of the planet and fix it later. We know that is just self serving bull****. He probably knows it too. He can only make a case for his conscience free behavior with hyperbole. 

Therefore, his arguments fail the test of being true in all cases. The fact is that most life forms do what they do in total harmony with the biosphere. Those of us who are self aware can pretend we are tigers with tools in order to justify very UNtiger like polluting piggery, but it's "logic" only a used car salesman could love.

LOGIC dictates that respect for all life is a moral imperative in a biosphere. You take life when you absolutely have to in order to survive, period. MKing's "logic" is that you take life (or harm it by your polluting enterprise) BECAUSE YOU CAN.

That's the "logic" of the snapping turtle in the wash bucket (that I put about 6 frogs in without providing them a place to hide from the snapper). That is NOT logical for a self aware being that realizes that, if he kills all his food supply, he will starve.

Yes Knarf, there are way to many MKings out there. But that does not give those of us who get it an excuse to behave stupidly.

The native Americans understood it. If everybody in the tribe does exactly what you do through six more generations, if the seventh generation experience no degradation of the biosphere, THAT BEHAVIOR IS MORAL=INTELLIGENT=RESPECT FOR ALL LIFE behavior.

As to old age narrowing our choices, that's par for the course. I'm there too. 

Remember what Mark Antony said (according to Shakespeare), "The Evil men do lives long after them. The good is oft interred with their bones. So let it be with Caesar."

YOU know you did the right thing and that HELPED HUMANITY.    It matters not what anybody else says.

 I am grateful to you for doing it.   




As for MKing, I will ENJOY his reaction when the EFFECTS of what he continues to do hit THIS generation, never mind the next six generations...

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« Reply #176 on: March 20, 2015, 09:21:24 pm »
Geoengineer, Ken Caldeira Comes Clean On Chemtrails
By Bob Fitrakis (Free Press)
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“Caldeira, then a scientist at Lawrence Livermore Labs, [who] admitted that he had conducted the original computer modeling for the use of chemicals like aluminum oxide to fight global warming.”

Noted climate scientist Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institute for Science at Stanford has finally popped the question.
In an article entitled “One Known Way to Cool the Earth” on the February 16, 2015 USA Today opinion page, Caldeira writes:
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“There is basically only one way known to cool the Earth rapidly.”… “is to reflect more of the sun’s warming rays back to space.”

What will it take to do this? According to Caldeira, only:


The reality is that the U.S. government has been spraying for well over a decade and a half in plain view while attacking anyone pointing it out. They’ve been making a chemical haze of clouds and putting a sunscreen in the sky. Small white planes, some of them associated with Battelle Memorial Institute, have been creating clouds in a criss-cross pattern in the sky.

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Jasper Kirkby, PhD – Climate investigator, revealed his knowledge of the covert aerosol dumps in a 2009 lecture at CERN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiNg4equ0fM&feature=player_embedded

Worrying about “Chemtrails” is often derided as a tinfoil hat conspiracy but transparency almost broke out when former Congressman Dennis Kucinich actually introduced a bill (HR-2977) referring to the elimination of Chemtrails as an “exotic weapon” in 2002. The term “chemtrail” was later removed in a later version of the bill.
In December 2001, I had written an article called “Stormy weather — The government’s top secret efforts to control Mother Nature.”

In the story I quoted Caldeira, then a scientist at Lawrence Livermore Labs, who admitted that he had conducted the original computer modeling for the use of chemicals like aluminum oxide to fight global warming.

He told me at the time
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, “We originally did the study to show that this program shouldn’t be done.” He alluded to possibly negative health effects from using massive chemical spraying for weather modification.

At the time, the leading promoter of this “Better living through chemistry” approach to global warming remediation was Edward Teller. The father of the H-bomb and grand promoter of Atoms for Peace, Teller spent his last few years advocating aerial spraying to counter global warming before he died in 2003.

The April 24, 2002 New York Times reported that Teller
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“has promoted the idea of manipulating the Earth’s atmosphere to counteract global warming.”
Two scientists from Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio acknowledged that planes were already spraying barium salt polymer fibers, aluminum oxide and other chemicals in the atmosphere to both modify the weather and for military communication purposes.
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The military has been using spraying to make cloud formations that create “sky antennas” to assist drones and provide over the horizon communication. Kucinich referred me to the military’s document “Joint Vision for 2020″ that outlines a directed energy program designed for “full spectrum dominance of the Earth.”
The Wright Pat scientists pointed to a paper by the United States Air Force entitled: “Weather as a force multiplier: Owning the weather by 2025.” The scientists referred me to U.S. patent #6315213 filed on November 13, 2002. The patent abstract specifically states: “The polymer is dispersed into the cloud and the wind of the storm agitates the mixture causing the polymer to absorb the rain. This reaction forms a gelatinous substance which precipitate to the surface below. Thus, diminishing the cloud’s ability to rain.”

Caldeira explained,
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“With the Earth in a fevered state, the pressure to put on a ‘solar geoengineering’ ice pack could become irresistible, especially if this ice pack could potentially save millions of lives.”
The U.S. government needs to come clean on this top secret program that’s being done without any environmental impact statements. In a democracy we need full transparency and the public needs to know what the government knows that justifies this aerial sunscreen spraying. At least Caldeira spells it out:
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“If current trends in green-house gas emissions continue, unprecedented megadroughts may plague much of the western USA, and the tropics may get so hot that widespread crop failures and famines become commonplace.”
Bob Fitrakis (born November 29, 1955) is an American political author and writer,[1][2] political candidate,[3] and Professor of Political Science in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department at Columbus State Community College. He has been the editor of the Columbus Free Press since 1993 and wrote extensively about the U.S. presidential election, 2004 and related 2004 U.S. election voting controversies. (Complete Bio)
http://www.aircrap.org/2015/03/20/geoengineer-ken-caldeira-comes-clean-on-chemtrails/
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« Reply #177 on: March 21, 2015, 04:03:53 pm »
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It helps if one realizes that individual freedom tends to be inversely proportional to quantity of possessions, as long as basic necessities are met. It is a hard sell, but I think it will get easier as collapse becomes obvious.


   


GO and UB's three step reaction to Ka's wisdom:
 

It must be so wonderful to be free as a lark on a beautiful spring day; rather than be bound in chains like poor Mr Blankfein on his way to St. Martin for a long weekend of sun and fun in his Lear jet. He would be thrilled no doubt that folks understand his predicament.  :exp-grin:

He's gonna get his when collapse becomes apparent, yes siree.  :icon_sunny:   [smg id=2742 type=full align=center caption=""]



GO,
Careful, old chum, your ENVY of the super rich (crooks) is showing.
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« Reply #178 on: March 21, 2015, 04:07:18 pm »
The 3 Reasons Money Brings Satisfaction But Not Happiness 

If money doesn’t bring happiness, then why do people behave as though it does?
 
It seems only natural that happiness should flow from having more money. Even if they don’t admit it, people still behave as though it were true. More money means you can have what you want and do what you want. The house you dream of? It’s yours. The new car you desire? Here are the keys. The freedom to enjoy your favourite pastimes? Here’s your racket, the court is down there, just past the pool.

So the puzzle is this: why do social scientists consistently find only moderate relationships between having more money and being happy? Some have even suggested that this moderate connection might be exaggerated. In reality money might have very little to do with happiness at all.

Most puzzling, though, is that people often seem aware at some level that money won’t make them happy. And yet they continue to work away earning money they don’t objectively need.

First, though, let’s look at the three reasons money doesn’t make us happy:

1.It’s relative income that’s important.
As I’ve noted previously, money is relative. It turns out we don’t mind so much about our actual level of income, so long as we’re earning more than other people around us. Unfortunately as we earn more money we’re likely to be surrounded by richer people so we often end up failing to take advantage of the positive comparison.

2.Material goods don’t make us happy.
Acquiring things like houses and cars only have a transient effect on happiness. People’s desires for material possessions crank up at the same, or greater rate, than their salaries. Again, this means that despite considerably more luxurious possessions, people end up no happier. There’s even evidence that materialism make us less happy.

3.People don’t shift to enjoyable activities when they are rich. People who earn more money don’t spend their time enjoying themselves, they spend their time at work, in activities likely to cause them more stress and tension. This may be because of ‘the focusing illusion’. When people think about earning more money they probably imagine they would use the money on recreational activities. In fact, to earn the money, they have to spend more time at work, and commuting to and from work.

http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/04/3-reasons-money-brings-satisfaction-but.php

Libertarian response to the above proven scientific reality.   ;)



Agelbert NOTE:
My dear friend GO, fellow Diner and respectful Libertarian debater of the "joys" of getting yours. I suggest you ponder the above truths. They are born of investigation, not religious beliefs (that you happen to have, by the way  ;)) about happiness being inversely proportional to the quantity of material possessions one has. Take a hard look at al those CEOs that you think are so happy. LOOK at their faces in the pictures where they pose with their best foot forward with a look of arrogant smug satisfaction. DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT IS HAPPINESS? I don't.

I used to have the Libertarian World View that "Money isn't everything, but it's way ahead of whatever is in second place".    I learned that is so false as to be an Orwellian statement.

Assuming (something I do not assume at all!) that the Bible is not an objective resource, let us look at what the Documented, Scientifically Observed behavior of Homo SAPS says about how having MORE makes people WANT MORE, be LESS satisfied and happy and be MORE acquisitive than those who have less (i.e. Having more really is inversely proportional to being happy with what you HAVE).

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Existing scientific research on the value of materialism yields clear and consistent findings. People who are highly focused on materialistic values have lower personal well-being and psychological health than those who believe that materialistic pursuits are relatively unimportant.

These relationships have been documented in sample of people ranging from wealthy to poor, from teenagers to the elderly, and from Australians to South Koreans.

Several investigators have reported similar results using a variety of ways of measuring materialism.

The studies document
that strong materialist values are associated with pervasive undermining of people's well-being, from low life satisfaction to happiness, to depression and anxiety, to physical problems such as headaches, and to personality disorders, narcissistic, and antisocial behaviors.

http://lifehacker.com/why-were-so-materialistic-even-though-it-doesnt-make-1486081424



 
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« Reply #179 on: March 21, 2015, 04:44:22 pm »
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I used to have the Libertarian World View that "Money isn't everything, but it's way ahead of whatever is in second place".  :evil4: I learned that is so false as to be an Orwellian statement.

Spoken like a person who chased down and fought in the courts for his 200 grand inheritance like a starved lion drooling over fresh bloody meat, and then lost the legal battle. 

Always wondered AG, Had you gotten your paws on the 200 big ones would you have become a Republican or a Libertarian the following day?? 
:cwmddd:     :laugh: 
 


Excellent observation and even more excellent inquiry. I did explain why I did what I did back then, but you forgot that so I will mention it again and fill in any "greed based, money worshipping, and so on" (see your "compliment" about my paws... temper, temper, old boy  no need to get offensive. ;D) impressions you may have received from my quixotic pro se efforts.

If I had gotten $200,000.00 from the inheritance, the plan was for my wife to be able to survive when I am dead. I do not have survivor benefits on my pension. Besides my Federal Government Pension, I collect $49 a month in Social Security due to the small amount of money I earned outside of the Federal Government after I was retired (selling Lifetime kitchenware, reflective film for business and residential energy savings, applying Jan mortar to the concrete facia of large, multi-story buildings (that was exciting!). booth operator at Burlington Airport parking and a paper route with my wife for the Burlington Free Press from 1998 to 2006 (I did enjoy the outdoor work quite a bit!).

NO social security was taken out while I was in the Federal Government (20 years). I managed to get enough Social Security quarters but the "pension" from Social Security (about $150) has Medicare part B subtracted from it.

So, WHEN I die (I'm ten years older than my wife), she will get SNAP fun and games and about half of $150 a month to live on, period. Here in Vermont, Carmen, with a Cum Laude BS degree in chemistry, some experience as a science teacher and assistant lab technician, applied for a job.

They would not hire her, even though she passed the chemistry knowledge questionnaire they gave her for the  ridiculously easy quality control job (a TEMPORARY JOB to fill in for sombody on vacation!) of looking through a scope to check for faults in a nicotine patch, because "she struggled with English". That is TOTAL BULL****. Sure, she has an accent, but EVERY chemistry and biochemistry book and course she ACED was in ENGLISH!

But let us not dwell on the local bigotry. If I do, some fine Diner will suggest I go back where I came from, or some other bit of duplicity to avoid the issue.   

The point is that my wife will have to sell the manufactured home when I die because she just cannot afford to live in a TRAILER that she owns any more because of the rent payments (and $900 a year property taxes).

If I had gotten the $200,000.00 my wife would have, at $1,500 a month (basic necessity living requirements here), about 130 months of the SAME standard of living we have now. She is 10 years younger than I am. I would have provided for her as much as I provided for myself. I wish I could have done that. That's all I wanted. It was not greed. It is now in God's hands.

I can live with that BECAUSE I did the best I could while maintaining my standards of ethical behavior. My best efforts, born of altruism, not greed, were not enough. Bad stuff happens.
 

Not wanting my wife to be homeless is rather different from greedily fighting for an inheritance, don't you agree? And I would NOT resort to unethical behavior to ensure my wife was not homeless. Anyone that thinks that unethical behavior is justified to feed your family is wrong. I hope you agree. Because if you don't, we will NEVER agree.

The rationalization to do WHATEVER so your FAMILY can be safe, secure and happy is EXACTLY what got Homo SAPdom to the suicidal box canyon it is in now.   

 
Blankfein poses for the camera.  ;D

This is guy is clearly as happy as a used car salesman. This "happiness" requires a constant devotion to finding new and better ways to make a sucker out of fellow Homo SAPS. Psychologically speaking, that "happiness" produces dysfunctional families, physical and mental health problems for all involved with this ethics challenged Homo SAP (including himself) and leads DIRECTLY to exploitation of planetary resources without reflection.

From the scamming, UNJUST behavior to the polluting UNJUST behavior, this is evil.

Now then, if you believe that EVIL behavior produces this brand of "happiness", then you CANNOT believe that the happiness, as we all define it, is related to having more material possessions by whatever means.

I single out Blankfein because YOU, GO, brought him up for the express purpose of ridiculing the validity of the quote from Ka I was celebrating.

But the SCIENCE says that, UNJUST acquisition of material possessions aside, INHERITED, as well as other JUST acquisitions of material possessions makes people LESS HAPPY than they were before they got the goodies. That is because, once they have MORE, they WANT MORE. 

There is no way around that, old chum. No, I don't sell used cars.  ;D


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He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Matt 10:37

 

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