Every cause has its effect

“Every cause has its effect, & every effect was caused by a cause. Nothing ‘just-happens’ w/o a cause, so nothing that happened ‘just-happened’ w/o a cause. It’s not about blindly obeying a list of don’ts, it’s about understanding consequences. Everyone can choose to do whatever they want, but EVERY choice has its consequence. 1Cor9:25NIV: ‘Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training’. One must ask oneself: ‘Is this choice propelling me up the ever-ascending bridge of eternal-progression toward greatness, or does this choice contain the Seed of Stupidly-Selfish Self-Sabotage resulting in a Sucky, Substandard, Shameful, Second-rate performance & Shortcoming/coming-Short of greatness?’ ” --Vinnieosophy

My Kol Nidre 16May2013

__ My experience with human religion was: "should's & shouldn't's," so in my transpersonal-experience; I've narrowed my preferred value-systems from 4,015 down to 7:

1) progressive, scholarly LDS-Christians 

      http://www.youtube.com/user/SunstoneSymposium

2) http://NewThoughtAlliance.org/ & UUniversalists 

      http://icUU.net/ (they overlap)

3) Sikh-humanists 

      http://www.Sikhs.wellington.net.nz/Nankian_Philosophy.pdf

4) pragmatic Hindus https://ChopraCenterMeditation.com/home

5) pragmatic, international, Buddhist-humanists http://www.sgi.org/

6) peaceful, inclusive Muslims: Ahmadiyyas & Sufis 

http://www.alIslam.org/ & http://www.SufiOrder.org/index.html

7) Jewish-humanists http://www.shj.org/

__ Then later I further narrowed it down to these orgs which overlap & seemed to me to be doing the most & best of what the world needed to survive & progress:

5) pragmatic, international, Buddhist-humanists http://www.sgi.org/ 

2) http://NewThoughtAlliance.org/ & UUniversalists http://icUU.net/ 

__ For 51yrs:6mos:15dys I have struggled & struggled via various value-system-associations to constructively-influence this world toward greater HAPPINESS for all. 

__ I measured my constructive-influences by how many individuals I influenced to progress, e.g.:

~ be healthier thru vegetarianism & halfathons, 

or 

~ complete college & join Mensa, 

or 

~ join upscale societies & have fulfilling relationships, 

or 

~ become a little wealthier, 

or 

~ enjoy more recreation, 

or

~ be more in-ethic. 

__ Working thru many orgs (e.g., IARF International Association for Religious Freedom, etc., etc.) I struggled & struggled to help various clerics see the need to quantify their progress, but almost all of them want to do is just be as P.C. and vanilla as possible to secure their jobs and never make any definitive statements or strides FORWARD to greater MEASURABLE world happiness. 

__ Finally 16May2013 I had enough, my patience reached its end, and I pronounced my personal Kol-Nidre declaration (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kol_Nidre):

"All vows, oaths or pledges I made or am likely to make, I publicly renounce. Let them all be relinquished & abandoned, null & void, neither firm nor established. Let my vows, oaths & pledges be considered neither vows, nor oaths, nor pledges."

So since then I'm ONLY a Vinnieosophist

(a hopesday-cult similar to: 

Sky-clad Garden-of-Eden/Hedon-Epicureans https://www.facebook.com/groups/hedo2h3

+ 

Sir-Francis-Dashwood's Monks-of-Medmenham http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellfire_Club

+

Noetic-Sciences http://noetic.org/

+

Pastafarians=Church-of-Flying-Spaghetti-Monster http://www.venganza.org/). 

Vindawg and Smantha Swinging in Jamaica 13-20Jul2013

I want my penis

         “Where does it say women aren't sexual objects? 

Of course they are. 
And here's a flash: They like it. 
That's why they're out there, getting their breasts done,

their tummies tucked, their faces lifted, 
so we'll keep looking at them sexually. 
         And of course, men are supposed to be the providers. 
Women are the ones who get pregnant. 
They can't work, all fat & distended. 
They stay home with the kids, while men bring home money. 
It's not just God's way, it's the way women want it. 
How many ladies do you know, who say: 
‘Honey, after I give birth, 
I want you to quit your job and stay home with the kids, 

so I can keep going to the office’? 
         ARE YOU NUTS? 
What's with all this ‘Let's all be the same’? 
We're not the same! 
That's why God made different sexes, so we'd be DIFFERENT! 
And it's natural for men to enjoy those differences. 
You're not going to change that. 
         Ultimately, a man will be ruled by his wants,

just like women will be ruled by theirs. 
What men want is sex, what women want is money. 
         If God made the penis revocable,

he'd be asking for yours back right now. 
You whipped, whipped things. 
The problem is, YOU'VE ALREADY GIVEN IT AWAY! 
What you all need to do is go home today and say: 
‘Honey, give me back my penis.’ ”

--Richard Fish, Ally-McBeal TV-Series, Season3:Episode3, 24:20-27:20

Permalink here (line 351) -- Permalink here (line 381)

http://movie.subtitlr.com/subtitle/show/265883

See the clip from this episode:

http://movies.Netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70157513&trkid=2361637&t=Ally+McBeal#MovieId=70157513&EpisodeMovieId=70176752

Humanists = Non-quantifiable

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Vindawg LindyHopper <interfaith2000@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi Mark,

___I like u & admire your honesty. So many others I come across are poster-children of ennui, but talk up a good facade pretending to be something else. At least u r honest. Though most think me to be 51, I am 63, my wife is 24, my friends are mostly Millennial-Generation-Y (in their 20's & early 30's), I run Halfathons, dance vigorous Collegiate-Shag, ice-skate, SCUBA-dive, rock-climb, repel, etc, etc. I am just not ready yet to call it quits and surrender to ennui. Once a Marine, always a Marine. Giving-up is NOT an option.

___#1) I know that either I + 1% of Earthniks (as a ship's rudder) do something definite to correct the course of "SS-Earth," or it's bound to be smashed upon the rocks of stupidity. I am looking for that 1% to be the vanguard with me in this undertaking. I do have a list of MEASURABLE-QUANTIFIABLE  ACTions that can be accomplished if only 1% of Earthniks would act in unison. 1 of the goals on my list is for UUA to become a recruiting dynamo and recruit 1% of Earthniks into its ranks (1% of people in every country). That many already are of UU way-of-thinking -- they just need to be found, acquainted with UU, and recruited. That is not hard -- it's EASY. If every UU would recruit just 1 new member per quarter, in 25 months 1% of Earthniks would be in the "UU-peace-corps" -- a force capable to rudder the world.

___#2) Another point in my list of objectives is to convert the UUA leadership

from a dyad (the weakest possible grouping for effective decisions)

into a triad (the strongest possible grouping):

a president + 2 counselors.

That president is to be a college graduate under 35 yrs of age, and until UUA membership hits 70-Million, a male. Yes I know that is sexist, but not every woman is a Margaret Thatcher or Golda Meir. There is a reason why the vast majority of self-made Billionaires & Millionaires are male, and why top military command is male, and why top company executives are male. Testosterone produces ACTion. Leaders need to be appointed for effectiveness not for political-correctness. Young women can be groomed for future leadership after membership hits 70-Million (1% of Earthniks).

___#3) The length of time for an issue to go through the process before UUA makes it its official declaration, is absurd. By then an issue may have ceased to be an issue & a different one may need to be quickly acted upon. The process needs to be shortened so that what took months would only take weeks. With contemporary means of comm, that is very possible.

___#4) In an Intro-to-UU class once when explaining the unification of Universalists & Unitarians, a guy asked Abi, who would the best probable group be if another unification was to take place. Abi's answer was: Religious-Science, and I happen to agree & like that answer. It would combine the weak social-action of UU's with the action-less postulating of NewThought. NewThought postulating would energize UU social-action toward MEASURABLE-QUANTIFIABLE results.

__There are other points toward doing good to help this wounded world, but there would be no point in discussing those if those above are not accomplished.

 

en·nui  n. Listlessness and dissatisfaction resulting from lack of interest; boredom.

a feeling of listlessness and general dissatisfaction resulting from lack of activity or excitement

[from French: apathy, from Old French enui annoyance, vexation; see annoy]

Collins English Dictionary

Noun

1.

ennui - the feeling of being bored by something tedious boredom, tedium dissatisfaction - the feeling of being displeased and discontent; "he was never slow to express his dissatisfaction with the service he received" blahs - a general feeling of boredom and dissatisfaction fatigue - (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something; "he was suffering from museum fatigue"; "after watching TV with her husband she had a bad case of football fatigue"; "the American public is experiencing scandal fatigue"; "political fatigue"

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From: Mark Brandt <mwbrandt@mail.usf.edu>
To: Vindawg LindyHopper <interfaith2000@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: Your recent letter

Vindawg,

From your perspective, I'm not part of the solution  (little or no action), just part of the problem (good at talking but not acting).  I have never had the capacity for a lot of reasons, to change the world, so the main activity has been talking about all of the world's ills and how to solve them, w/o doing anything substantial to achieve that better world.  I plead age and ennui.  Now, if you still want to have a discussion, let me know and we can spend (waste?)an hour or whatever talking about these things.  If that's a waste of your time, then let me know and you can move on in your world of action, and I in mine of thought and talk.

Mark

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Vindawg LindyHopper <interfaith2000@yahoo.com> wrote:

I'm all for a full-&-frank-discussion of our philosophies,

if the expected outcome is to be some MEASURABLE-QUANTIFIABLE  ACTion.

Cpl yrs back, I was very involved with Abi & many other area clerics in the IARF (International Association for Religious Freedom) which used to meet @ UU-Clearwater, monthly. As secretary of our chapter, I spent countless hours inviting & inviting all kinds of area clerics, and planning ACTivities which would serve to eliminate fundamentalist-religionist bigotry which divides people. After about a year of spinning my tires, I discovered that the clerics were more interested in discussing the contemplation of their navel rather than doing good to help this wounded world. They'd come together once a month to pat each other on the butt & express sentiments of "Why can't we all just get along?" but were never willing to ACT on any ideas which would produce some MEASURABLE-QUANTIFIABLE  ACTion.

Al-Qaeda is just 1 example of a global militant organization which operates as a network comprising a multinational army & a movement calling for a global campaign. It has carried out several attacks on targets it considers unacceptable (it ACTs). I don't think I need to site details of just how many Billions are invested in MIC (Military-Industrial-Complex) around the globe every year, preparing to destroy-things & kill-people. And while the destructive elements of humanity are well organized and perform MEASURABLE-QUANTIFIABLE  ACTion, atheists-humanists-freethinkers are only interested in discussing the contemplation of their navel. This whole world is clearly heading toward an Easter-Island-type break-down of society & ecological-disaster, and I don't see any serious ACTion being undertaken to prevent it. While the destructive forces are well organized into "phalanx-formations" & "tortoise-formations," atheists-humanists-freethinkers have a psychotic phobia of any joint-ACTion. 

From: Mark Brandt <mwbrandt@mail.usf.edu>
To: interfaith2000@yahoo.com 
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 9:21 PM
Subject: Your recent letter

Vindawg,

Thanks for your note Sunday eve.  It appears you were less than pleased with the tenor and the sartorial attitudes of the audience.  You have merit to your statements that we atheist/humanist/ freethinkers of all stripes seem to be more interested in discussing the contemplation-of-our-navel rather than doing good to help this wounded world.  But there are some points on the other side of that issue.  Rather than engage in further discussion here, I'd be happy to meet with you at some point to discuss our worldviews and the strong and weak points of each.  If you'd like to sit down after the holidays for, as the politicians say, a full and frank discussion of our different philosophies, I'd be happy to do that.  If you feel that's a waste of time, I understand.

Mark

Murder Instinct

Like it or not, the reason we are here is that our ancestors were better killers than those whose posterity died out. Why are squirrels skittish? Because those with that instinct survived while the non-skittish ones became someone's lunch. Why do wars, murders, bull-fights, dog-fighting, cock-fighting, & violent sports, movies, & video-games persist? Unfortunately, because those who are alive today are the posterity of those who evolved those instincts.

Unfortunately, even in religion that is true. Look at the facts. Which religions are the largest? Those which converted people through violence, genocide, murder, burning-people-alive: Catholicism(1.1Bill) & Islam(1.3Bill). They are the largest because they genocided, murdered, burned-alive, anyone who didn't go along with their dictatorship.

Will humans ever learn to survive together through cooperation? Or will they destroy themselves with that murderous warrior instinct, since the fall-out of today's weapons would result in Nuclear-winter (climatic effect of nuclear war; severe effect on climate causing cold weather & reduced sunlight for years, due to soot ejected into Earth's stratosphere).

I accuse media & clergy of culpable-negligence

__ I accuse media & clergy of culpable-negligence (recklessly acting w/o reasonable caution & putting another person at risk of injury or death, or failing to do something with the same consequences). What police & military have to deal with are the failures of the clergy.

__ Crime & war are proof that clergy are NOT doing their job. Their job is to guide people, by example, to want to be better versions of themselves and Create-Value=HAPPINESS from within, without trying to take value from others. Not having that guidance, many people turn to taking value from others (crime), and police have to get involved to FORCE appropriate behavior externally. 

__ Crime on a larger scale = war, and the military has to get involved to keep one nation from taking value from another. 

__ Then the media gets involved practicing "Yellow-Journalism" (journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the NEGATIVE news to create sensations & attract readers). Publishing their pictures & names only glorifies criminals & mass-murderers, and weak-minds are swayed to seek infamy since they were not able to create any value = internal, indestructible HAPPINESS.